WordPress home page changed now can't access Login.php

  • Kicking myself over this one. Hoping for some advice before I bother with asking the web host provider to pull up a site archive.

    I wanted to test a new home page. I trashed default home page and in the dashboard told wordpress to make https://www.brooklynlivingroomspa.com/spa-home my home page. Big mistake because now I can’t login to the dashboard via wp-admin or wp-login. None of the website links work because they can’t read the new path for example https://www.brooklynlivingroomspa.com/spa-home.php/about-us

    I have tried looking in file manager but can’t find the exact webpage https://www.brooklynlivingroomspa.com/spa-home to delete it or change it’s name to https://www.brooklynlivingroomspa.com so I can at least get back into the dashboard and restore the old home page.

    I tried looking at the index.php file, no clues there.

    Also tried mySQL and myPHP but I’m not that strong with either one of these.

    My thoughts to solve this are:
    1) delete the spa-home page through file manager and restore old home page. ( I can’t figure that out though)
    2) change the url of the login page via mySQL or myPHP (no success here either)
    3) export the XML file and start a new website (I can’t figure out to export an XML file without having access to the dashboard).

    I do have zip files of the wp-content folder and wp-admin folder. Tried a new site, but without the XML I couldn’t get the text from the previous site.

    Any help would be appreciated. I’m not much good at php and SQL.

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  • in the dashboard told wordpress to make https://www.brooklynlivingroomspa.com/spa-home my home page.

    Where in your Dashboard did you do that?

    Thread Starter cionataylor

    (@cionataylor)

    WordPress dashboard under settings. Once I saved my changes and went to view home page I became locked out. I think there was originally an error 500 message. I was able to rename the htaccess as htaccess old, which allowed me to at least get the jumbled webpage that is up now. Still no login access though.

    Dashboard > Settings > General has nothing to do with changing your home page. Rather, those entries are for telling WordPress what to expect as an incoming URL and where to find your WordPress installation. So, those would only come into play if “change my home page” actually means you are wanting your URL to land at a new location where you have either added a new installation of WordPress or you have moved your existing site.

    Is either of those what you are trying to do?

    Thread Starter cionataylor

    (@cionataylor)

    I know what the problem is. I told wordpress to recognize a different URL as my homepage. As in my example WordPress is trying to connect to other pages by using the new URL. Instead of going to https://www.brooklynlivingroomspa.com/wp-login
    it’s trying
    https://www.brooklynlivingroomspa.com/spa-home.php/wp-login

    https://www.brooklynlivingroomspa.com/spa-home.php/wp-login does not exist and it’s a bad address anyway (notice the .php in the middle of the address).

    Hi cionataylor – did you manage to resolve this? I’m having similar issues.
    Incidentally – I was trying to change the home page URL as I couldn’t get the Page I names as ‘HOME’ to receive the posts – was this your issue?
    Thanks
    Paul

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