Problems with site address!

  • Hi All,
    I sent this question to my nearlyfreespeech host:
    “My problem is, when you navigate thru the menu on my site and click on the various links, I need the navigation bar to say https://www.paulaneeley.com/education-and-experience/, instead of paulaneeley.nfshost.com/education-and-experience/. How do I change all the links from the subpages I made on my site from paulaneeley.nfshost.com/etc to paulaneeley.com/etc ?”

    And I got this reply:
    “Take a look in the WordPress dashboard at the settings page. Probably one of these settings isn’t using your own domain:
    WordPress Address (URL)
    Site Address (URL)
    Once you find and fix that (so neither of them uses the paulaneeley.nfshost.com addres, this problem will likely disappear. “

    So I started by changing the Site Address. I then got this error:

    “Warning: is_writable() [function.is-writable]: open_basedir restriction in effect. File(/) is not within the allowed path(s): (/f5/paulaneeley/:/nfsn/apps/php53/lib/php/:/nfsn/apps/php5/lib/php/:/nfsn/apps/php/lib/php/) in /f5/paulaneeley/public/wp-admin/includes/misc.php on line 133

    Warning: Cannot modify header information – headers already sent by (output started at /f5/paulaneeley/public/wp-admin/includes/misc.php:133) in /f5/paulaneeley/public/wp-includes/pluggable.php on line 881″

    I then tried to navigate back to my dashboard and I could not access it! My safari gave me this error:
    “too many redirects occurred trying to open “https://paulaneeley.nfshost.com/wp-admin/”. This might occur if you open a page that is redirected to open another page which is then redirected to open the original page.”

    Any help here???? I really need help!

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  • Your hosts certainly don’t know anything about WordPress! See Changing_The_Site_URL.

    Thread Starter paulaneeley

    (@paulaneeley)

    Hi Esmi,
    Thanks for the reply. I read the article and tried changing the url directly in the database using phpmyadmin. I didn’t know whether to reset both “siteurl” and “home” values to paulaneeley.nfshost.com or paulaneeley.com, so I tried both, and neither worked to access my dashboard again.
    It looks like the only other option I could try (since I can’t access my dashboard) is to ftp to my site and try to find the functions.php file. I looked, however I could not find it.

    Any suggestions?

    Thank you for your help!
    -Paula

    Set both urls back to paulaneeley.nfshost.com initially.

    Thread Starter paulaneeley

    (@paulaneeley)

    I tried that, and I also just tried editing the functions.php file using filezilla and adding this:
    update_option(‘siteurl’,’https://paulaneeley.nfshost.com’);
    update_option(‘home’,’https://paulaneeley.nfshost.com’);

    to the top of the file. Still no luck accessing my dashboard ??

    Well, your site is working just fine. Where did you install WordPress on this domain?

    Thread Starter paulaneeley

    (@paulaneeley)

    My whole visible site works totally fine. Except the dashboard which I can’t access. If i try to go to https://paulaneeley.nfshost.com/wp-admin , it gives me an error message.

    I’m not sure where I installed wordpress on my domain. I knew absolutely nothing about websites at the time (and little more now), so the process of installation was a blur :-p
    Where could I look to find out and tell you?

    Try asking your hosts for assistance with this question. It’s not something that we can determine.

    Thread Starter paulaneeley

    (@paulaneeley)

    I did, and they are the ones who screwed me up in the first place by telling me to change my site address ??

    Do you know of anyone else I could ask safely to solve this problem for me?

    You could try hiring someone.

    Hi paulaneeley,

    You forgot to include your reply email address on the jobs.wordpress.net forum.

    Hi paulaneeley

    please send me an e-mail to: [email protected] and I would be fix your problem. you didnt leave any contact info in wordpress job site.

    Thans

    Thread Starter paulaneeley

    (@paulaneeley)

    Update,
    I had a friend work on my site. He managed to get by dashboard back up and running, but now the actual pages of the site don’t work! Any suggestions?

    https://www.paulaneeley.nfshost.com
    Click on the menu at the bottom, you will see I get 404 errors.
    Any help would be appreciated!

    -Paula

    Thread Starter paulaneeley

    (@paulaneeley)

    oops, sorry all, the address should have been:
    https://paulaneeley.nfshost.com

    Hi Paulaneely,

    You may have a custom menu. The other thing may be that your redirect did not change the menu. Let me know if this helps at all.

    jv8080

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