Site Completely Fell Apart!

  • Resolved JoelMertz2

    (@joelmertz2)


    10 years, 10 months ago

    If anyone can help me, I will be your best friend forever! I’m afraid I may have lost months of hard work. Hopefully there is still hope…

    I was working on a sub-directory install of my WordPress site at: https://www.joelmertz.net/dev/ When I attempted to move my WordPress site into my root directory and replace my old PHP site, I first deleted all other files in the public_html directory, except of course for the “dev/” directory, which contained my WordPress files.

    Then, from my wp-admin settings panel, I updated both my WordPress address and Site address to: https://www.joelmertz.net/. After hitting “Save Changes,” I immediately received a 404 page not found error. Now, my WordPress site is in shambles with broken image links, broken links and styles. I am hopeful because it looks like there is still information in my database. Is there a file I should try accessing for reconnecting my site back up?

    My hosting company is attempting to restore the site from before this incident happened. Ugh!

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  • Thread Starter JoelMertz2

    (@joelmertz2)

    Now I’m wondering if I was supposed to have moved my files into the root before I changed the directing from the WordPress settings admin. If that’s all this was, I should be in OK shape. I’m moving all of my WordPress files into the root now.

    There are steps to do this, but for what you want I would believe that you’ll be OK once you transfer the files to your root directory. if not have a look at Moving WordPress.

    One thing that might be an issue is if you have permalinks set up, and you get “500” errors when you’re going to pages other then the home page. if that happens, go into the permalinks area in your admin, set it to ‘Default’ and save, and tehn back to it’s current setting and save again. this will reset the permalinks and re-write the .htaccess file (which is the cuase of the 500 errors in the first place).

    Thread Starter JoelMertz2

    (@joelmertz2)

    It’s working! Thank you catacaustic! After I transferred my files over from the sub directory into the root, everything was up and running properly. I believe I followed the directions in the wrong order. I needed to move the files before changing the root in my WordPress administration panel. Lesson learned! Thank you so much for taking a look at this.

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