Used automatic upgrade plugin, now cannot access wp-admin etc

manually remove the offending plugin from the plugins folder and try…if it works….dont do it again…grr..hiss

yep, removed all the plugins and it doesnt make a difference! Ive spent a few hours trying to rectify this now and its really starting to get on my nerves… wish I’d just left it alone and not bothered trying to upgrade!

Nasty thing to be doing putting it in a folder like that – well maybe its common practice.
Possibly think with all the problems people have been having its probably screwed your site_url and home url settings in the wp-options table. So if you can get to db, try looking for the two rows which show “site_url” and “home” links and make sure they are correct.

it might also be the case that there is some other plugin thats causing the problem – and to work that out remove all plugins, and stick one in at a time manually.

Thanks hotkee, took all your tips but site_url etc all work fine. I will delete all my plugins and see what happens next.. althoguh the only plugin I have is the one thats installed with the new upgrade!
thanks for your help it means a lot!

logically one of the urls set should be

https://www.miss-brightside.com
the site url I think

and the other https://www.miss-brightside.com/wordpress
(the wordpress blog url)

also your index.php should have
require(‘./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

not
require(‘.wordpress/wp-blog-header.php’);

theres no option such as “blog url”, just one referring to url which is the “siteurl”.
there seems to be a comment for “wpau_upgrade_log” and “wpau_active_plugins_info” under ‘collation’ reading: latin1_swedish_ci… not sure if this is relevant though!

The two records to look for are “siteurl” and “home”, one refers to your blog url, the other is the wordpress address. because you have different locations, i would expect these two entries to be differnt.

also whats in your .htaccess file

I can’t open the .htaccess files at all either through ftp or via the control panel of my server.

I’m not sure whether I should completely delete the whole wordpress directory (saving my customised themes though) and seeing what happens next… i thought an upgrade would take half an hour tops but is turning into a pretty unnecessary nightmare!!

Deleting your whole wordpress directory would delete your blog. Anywho, I’m having a similar problem. You see, I upgraded my wordpress with the automatic upgrade plug-in also. Afterward, everything worked fine. So, I thought it would be a good idea for a friend of mine, who I also host, to use it as well, seeing nothing went wrong wit my upgrade. Well, it turns out that this is also happening to her, with the exception of the 404 page. Instead, the entire blog comes up, like what you would see on the homepage. How would I fix this?

jeni_8686 – might be permissions on your .htaccess you need to change them to 644 to view it.

But in your wp-config – can you add

define(‘WP_SITEURL’, ‘https://YOURSITE.com/wordpress’);

and then give it a whirl

Hi hotkee, thanks for persevering with my problem!
Im not too sure how to change permissions on .htaccess file?
do i just make a new file in notepad and copy over the old .htaccess file? if so, what is the exact code that goes in the file?#

sodevious – yes, deleting the whole thing would delete my blog but i feel like copying each post into word and then once starting wordpress installation from scratch just manually add the posts again!!
if i cant fix my blog in a couple of days i think thats my only option ??

ok nothing is workin can ANYONE suggest something? i dont know how to edit .htaccess files so cant do that, and have already installed/reinstalled and yet it is still saying “sorry no posts matched your criteria” whenever i try to access wp-admin so havent been able to go to my wordpress control panel for over a week now….

This might be a bit helpful… https://iboughtamac.com/2008/07/20/i-upgraded-to-wordpress-26-and-now-i-cant-login/