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geekhack Community => Off Topic => Topic started by: Fragil1ty on Thu, 28 November 2013, 19:04:10

Title: Huge wordpress problems.
Post by: Fragil1ty on Thu, 28 November 2013, 19:04:10
Hey guys, so to cut a long story short, I've been developing a website on wordpress (pretty big website) for the past two weeks and earlier today I changed a setting in the general settings (pretty stupid of me, but I thought, what's the worst that could happen, all I did was change the url of the actual website, I thought I could change it back if it didn't work) and now all my stuff is lost, I cannot afford to  spend another two weeks on this website as it's going live sometime in a few days.

I've got a back-up, but whenever I try and put it back onto the server space, nothing happens, it just doesn't load, it does the same as before, any ideas, any tips?
Title: Re: Huge wordpress problems.
Post by: kmiller8 on Thu, 28 November 2013, 19:10:10
Find a nice corner, and cry softly in it for a few hours.

More seriously, maybe try the wordpress support forum? http://wordpress.org/support/
Title: Re: Huge wordpress problems.
Post by: stoic-lemon on Thu, 28 November 2013, 19:17:53
If you do post on the support forums, you will need to be much more specific about what you did in the first place, and how you have tried to fix it.
Title: Re: Huge wordpress problems.
Post by: dustinhxc on Thu, 28 November 2013, 19:57:36
Did you try to change the setting back and re upload the files? I assume you changed the blog directory?
Title: Re: Huge wordpress problems.
Post by: Fragil1ty on Thu, 28 November 2013, 20:05:39
Did you try to change the setting back and re upload the files? I assume you changed the blog directory?

Yeah, I did that, it's just not working, I'm going to delete the directory, re-install wordpress and overwrite using the back-up and I'm praying that works. :/
Title: Re: Huge wordpress problems.
Post by: metalliqaz on Thu, 28 November 2013, 21:12:42
It probably changed your apache config
Title: Re: Huge wordpress problems.
Post by: Hak Foo on Thu, 28 November 2013, 23:09:44
If you have access to a tool like phpmyadmin, you might look at the database.  There's a table called wp_settings or wp_config or something similar, and it has a few rows that contain the site's path.  You might be able to doctor it back to the right values.
Title: Re: Huge wordpress problems.
Post by: dustinhxc on Sat, 30 November 2013, 13:11:20
If you have access to a tool like phpmyadmin, you might look at the database.  There's a table called wp_settings or wp_config or something similar, and it has a few rows that contain the site's path.  You might be able to doctor it back to the right values.

Good answer ^^