How to edit dashboard settings

  • Resolved wingman89

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    11 years, 9 months ago

    I have Wp installed on my localhost. I am having some problems getting the site to work on the hosting server, but that is another story.

    Long story short, I went into the localhost dashboard and changed the Site Address to the live address, from https://localhost/wordpress. Since I am having problems with my hosted site working, now I cannot log into my local dashboard becuase of the setting change. So, how, or where do I go to change the site address setting back to localhost? Perhaps there is there a file that I can edit?

    Please help. I am desperate. Thanks.

    Ted

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  • Change the urls back. See Changing_The_Site_URL for details of how to do this correctly.

    Thread Starter wingman89

    (@wingman89)

    Esmi,

    Thank you so much for the information. I used the wp_options table in the DB to make the change. Now I can login to my localhost Dashboard.

    With that out of the way, now I must find the problem with the hosting side. When I go to my site: https://www.stpaulsmassillon.org, I am getting a page that only shows my navigation, not the front page. Not good. Here is what I did:

    Migrated the WP files to the root directory on the host
    Created the DB and imported the SQL database from my computer
    Modified the wp_config file to match the new DB.

    I have been unable to log into the WP dashboard.

    Now a thought, do I have to change the URL for the site1 in the database like I did before. Right now it is https://localhost/wordpress. Should it be my site address in order to run?

    I appreciate all your help. This should be easy, but somewhere I missing something.

    Thanks Esmi.

    Ted

    You need to review Moving_WordPress.

    Thread Starter wingman89

    (@wingman89)

    Hi Esmi,

    I finally got the site live. I made the changes to the wp_options table on the host server, to reflect my site URL. That made it happen.

    Thanks so much for all your help. You got me over the hump.

    Have a great day. I know I will now!

    Ted

    Glad I could help ??

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