No access to WP after URL change from localhost to IP

  • vanessakaltcheva

    (@vanessakaltcheva)


    4 months ago

    Hi, I’m a complete newbie. Sorry to raise this topic once again, but I just cannot find the resolution to my exact case.

    I have a locally installed WordPress site on my PC (using XAMPP). It’s my first website and it is 70% ready, so I wanted to access it from different devices in my network, at home.

    I did what it seems a classic mistake of changing the Site Address URL & WordPress Address URL in the WordPress General Settings both from “localhost/mysite.com” to “000.000.000.0//mysite.com” (yes, the result is, there is a double “//” in the current URL…) Now I have no access to my site/admin and I am not sure how to proceed.

    I tried editing a few things in the wp-config, the Apache httpd-conf, and probably tried a few more advices I scattered around the internet. However I decided to return everything as it was initially so I don’t complicate things further.

    So, what I am trying to understand now is what exactly do I need to do in order to regain access to my website.

    I would appreciate anyone’s advice here. Thanks!

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  • Happy to help! The records you need to update are located in the wp_options table of your WordPress database. Since you installed this locally, you may need to set up phpMyAdmin locally in order to edit the database directly to make this change. Once you are able to edit the database, the “home” and “siteurl” fields are what you need to change to get the site to load again.

    There are lots of guides from various hosts online that should come up with a search of “wordpress url in database” in case you need a more thorough walkthrough.

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