Changed the URL in settings – website broken?

[justaguy]

I was setting up my wordpress blog and there was a setting in the dashboard where you could change the URL of the blog.

At the end of the url it had a "/wp." For example http://myblog.com/wp.

I wanted to remove the "/wp" and clicked save. Then my website broke. Now I can't even try to log into the dashboard. When I go to the login link it says:

Not Found

The requested URL /wp-login.php was not found on this server.

Additionally, a 404 Not Found error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.

Apache/2.2.29 (Unix) mod_ssl/2.2.29 OpenSSL/1.0.1e-fips mod_bwlimited/1.4 Server at justaguyecommerce.com Port 80

Anyone have any advice?

Thanks!

[Tim Squires]

Hi,
Take a look in the WordPress codex and find the article on "changing the site URL"
There may be information there that will help.
You will need access to your WP files with FTP to make the necessary changes, but hopefully you will be able to restore your site.
Sorry that I can't post a direct link to the article, but I'm currently on my iPad which isn't working very well at the moment.
Cheers,
Tim

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[Ren Ventura]

The problem is likely because you removed the /wp from both the WordPress and Site URL but your WordPress installation is not in the root directory for your domain; it's installed under the directory "/wp". The WordPress Address setting needs to be the URL to the directory your WordPress files are under. See this link for more info:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL

To change it back, you'll need to follow the instructions for editing your wp-config.php, which overrides the settings you declare in the admin, or edit the setting in your database (among the first rows in the wp_options table).

Just note that doing these things can mess stuff up even more if not done properly. If you're not comfortable with doing them yourself, you may want to hire a developer.

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