• Resolved HELP NEEDED

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    Hey,
    we upgraded WP 3.1 on a Windows server and afterwards we wanted to put our website “under constructions” and thought that we could do that by changing the URLs. Now we can’t open the link to enter onto the admin-page anymore. The homepage itself is still available but completly changed (it looks this: https://www.fs-romanistik-bonn.de/?page_id=8) and doesn’t work anymore.
    We’re hoping to get a quick answer. Thanks in advance! ??

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  • One thing is clear: you’ve lost the connections to the CSS style sheet and probably the database too – and who or what is https://www.arbeiten3333.de?

    I assume you changed the URLs in the admin system itself? Now you can’t log back in so you can’t change them back?

    The easiest way to have done it was to have just made a new index.htm page (with the under construction stuff on) on your server and changing the name of your wordpress index.php to something else, like wordpress_index.php or something like that. But that’s just hindsight.

    This problem is out of my knowledge to fix – my best guess would be that you need to log in to the database with PHPMyAdmin and find where the URLs are and change them back manually. But I could be completely wrong there.

    Someone else?

    Thread Starter HELP NEEDED

    (@help-needed)

    Thanks alot but we’re kinda confused.
    Do we have to go to this page? https://www.phpmyadmin.net/home_page/
    How do we get to the database?

    I assume you changed the URLs in the admin system itself? Now you can’t log back in so you can’t change them back?

    Yes, you’re right. We changed the URLs. ?? Now we can’t even open this link (https://www.fs-romanistik-bonn.de/wp-admin/ that we have changed into https://www.arbeiten3333.de) to login anymore.

    I get to PHPMyAdmin from within my host’s control panel. Log on to yours, and you should find a link to PHPMyAdmin in the database section of your control panel (it’s like an application on your server). You then log into PHPMyadmin using your database username and password, or your hosting control panel username & password, or even your FTP username and password and then you’ll be able to see all the data on your database, and (I’M TOTALLY GUESSING HERE) somewhere in one of the tables may be the URLs that you changed. But I have no real idea here as I’ve never done this so i don’t know where the data will actually be.

    So please don’t leap into your database blindly – what you change here will affect the site and could break it even more!!

    Hopefully someone else can give you better advice than me!

    Thread Starter HELP NEEDED

    (@help-needed)

    So our host’s control panel would be https://www.fs-romanistik-bonn.de/wp-admin/ ?

    Thanks again for trying to help us! ??

    No. That’s your wordpress admin page.

    When you set up your domain name and hosting, your ISP will have given you a link whereby you can sort out all your email addresses, the URL that the domain points to, all that sort of stuff. For example, https://admin.1and1.co.uk

    It is sounding to me like you may need to hire someone to sort this out for you – and I’m not that person I’m afraid! ??

    Thread Starter HELP NEEDED

    (@help-needed)

    The main problem is that we didn’t set up this page so we don’t have this link. We’ll try to find out who set up this page.

    Thank you so much! ??

    Thread Starter HELP NEEDED

    (@help-needed)

    Thanks! ??
    With the second link we succeeded to open the login-page again but we can’t login with our regular user name and password anymore. Any ideas?

    I had the same problem as HELP NEEDED, plus my Blogg couldn’t find the css files and looked bleah. dan.tee’s suggestion worked like a charm for me!! Well, kinda sorta. I logged into my host’s cP, went to the phpMyAdmin section… and that is where the fun began!

    This took a lot of searching thru the many different dB’s found there (keeping in mind that I have absolutely NO idea if they were dB’s or not!). I found one under my WordPress folder called wp_options. In there I found a file(??) that had an “option_name” called siteurl. It had the wrong url that was causing me the same problem as HELP… . I made the adjustment, but found that my Blogg was still not up to scratch (a little better visually) AND I still couldn’t login to my WP admin. So, the search went on…

    Under the same folder, I found “option_name” home. Again, here was the offending url. Adjustment made and… Bingo! All is well. My Blogg is back (able to read the css files) and I can sign into my WPadmin. whew… BTW, I was able to do all the editing while in the phpMyAdmin, thank you very much!

    I know that HELP wants to get that “Under Construction” page to show and that is outside of this noob’s understanding, but maybe my work can help to get you into your WPadmin once more. And a great big Thank You to dan.tee!! Your suggestion worked for this ol’ boy, and I took your warning about going into this blind. There is a lot there and one small mistake…

    Right, and keep in mind you techies that my use of the words “file” and “folder” and “dB” may be wrong, but it’s all my interpretations, eh.

    @robbz

    Glad to be of help sir. Kinda feeling warm and fuzzy now…

    Thread Starter HELP NEEDED

    (@help-needed)

    Thanks for your quick answers! ??
    But we didn’t get there yet.
    First question ?? : What is a host’s cP and where is it?

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    First question ?? : What is a host’s cP and where is it?

    Your host is the company whom you are paying to put your website on their server.

    A host’s CP is their Control Panel (often Plesk or cPanel) which you can log into and fiddle with your site. Add emails. Etc. If you don’t know what THAT is, ask your webhost ??

    Thread Starter HELP NEEDED

    (@help-needed)

    Thank you so much!!! All of you finally helped us to solve our problem!!! You won’t believe how lucky we are now. Everything works fine again. THANK YOU!!! ??

    Huzzah! Well done for persevering with it! Web stuff isn’t really THAT hard to get your head around, and the rewards for solving tough techie problems are all their own.

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