Went Multisite, then changed my mind, now I can't get the wp-login to show

  • Resolved ELowe

    (@elowe)


    13 years, 8 months ago

    I made a big mistake today and tried to create a multisite set up for my website. When prompted, I moved all the files to the root (they had been in a sub-directory). Once I had established that, the appearance of the site was not to my liking, so I impulsively moved everything back.

    My problem is this:

    1. All my files are in place
    2. I corrected the .htaccess & wp-config files
    3. The database seems to be okay (I deleted all the pieces that the multi-site exercise created)
    4. When I point my browser to my usual log in screen, the php code returns a blank page. So I can’t get into the dashboard to correct permalinks, etc.

    Additionally, when I point to the sub-directory, I get a listing of all the php files

    Any ideas?

    I’m running 3.1

    Site should be here
    Files located in subdirectory “wp”

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  • Thread Starter ELowe

    (@elowe)

    OK, I think I may have found something.

    In my users table, the fields “deleted” and “spam” exist. I don’t see an obvious way to delete those two fields.

    Can you suggest a method?

    Thread Starter ELowe

    (@elowe)

    Ipstenu, I did correct that line in the index.php that exists in the root. I suppose I need to correct that same line in the version that exists within my subfolder?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Elowe – The Database is fine for now. Leave it alone. It won’t affect anything right now ?? Once you turn off multisite, it’s inert.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Ipstenu, I did correct that line in the index.php that exists in the root. I suppose I need to correct that same line in the version that exists within my subfolder?

    No, DO NOT edit that subfolder file!

    Add THIS to your wp-config.php please

    define('WP_SITEURL', 'https://pfarc.com/wp/');
define('WP_HOME', 'https://pfarc.com/');

    And leave your DB alone. I promise you, you DO NOT need to delete anything else right now. What’s in there, the extra tables etc, WILL NOT hurt you.

    Thread Starter ELowe

    (@elowe)

    Thanks Ipstenu.

    Do those two lines need to be in any specific location?

    After the other MySQL settings?

    Or just at the end of the file?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    Never at the end of the file ?? Put ’em where you had the multisite lines. By WP_DEBUG is good.

    Thread Starter ELowe

    (@elowe)

    I put them before the Authentication Keys and *good things* are happening!

    Looks like that fixed it. Now I just need to clean up my permalinks.

    Thanks very much for your help. It has been a life-saver!

    By the way, something odd I noticed is the introduction of an additional backslash in the urls of the pages. Is that related to the two lines we dropped into the wp-config file?

    It doesn’t appear to be a problem, links without the extra ‘/’ still work, but it just seems like I should try and clean that up.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    ?????? Advisor and Activist

    No problem ??

    NOW you’ll probably want to hit up the database and edit the site URL and home URL in there. I suspect you set ’em both to https://pfarc.com by accident, and WordPress lost it’s wee little mind!

    Read https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Changing_The_Site_URL#Changing_the_URL_directly_in_the_database

    The extra fields in the Users table are fine, by the way. They won’t hurt you AND they may be able to be utilized in future versions of WP.

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