WordPress Site Has Disappeared

  • I created a site consisting of static pages to reproduce another website that I wanted to update. I had it located in C:/wamp/localhost/wordpress on my computer to develop the new site. I could log in with my username & password in the WordPress login page & see & work on it.
    My Wampserver, although allowing me to access my site, would always give me a database error code when I tried to open the phpMyAdmin. I didn’t worry about it since I didn’t think I really needed it. Then, when I wanted to migrate my site to an online server, I realized I needed the phpMyAdmin & rectified that problem. Now that works, but my original WP site has disappeared.
    Although all the files that were always in the WordPress folder are still there, I can find no means of reproducing my site.
    I’m worried that I never actually created a database at all. Is that possibe? How then was I able to see the 41 page site through my WP dashboard? How can I access my site again?

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  • Is that possibe?

    No. The database will be somewhere on your server.

    Thread Starter Chris Luckett

    (@chris-luckett)

    But where? I was told that it would be a .sql file, but I tried Search & cannot find any of those anywhere! All I see in my WordPress folders & files are html, php, etc.

    You need to reverse the changes you made to your Phpmyadmin or MySQL server to regain access to tour old database. Once you have access again, export the entire WP database as a .sql file. Then make your corrective changes again and import the saved .sql file to create database on your “new” MySQL server.

    Thread Starter Chris Luckett

    (@chris-luckett)

    I don’t think that’s possible. Because I was unable to access the phpMyAdmin when I was using my original WP site, I did what the Wamp forum suggested & downloaded a ResetMySQL file. After that I was able to access the phpMyAdmin interface but there was no wordpress db there. The only thing that I wasn’t able to remove from my C:\wamp\localhost\wordpress folder was the actual www folder and that was because it said “it has one or more of its subfolders shared with other people. If you delete this folder, other people won’t be able to access its shared content Folder: C:\wamp\www\wordpress”. Could that be significant?

    I did what the Wamp forum suggested & downloaded a ResetMySQL file

    I can only suggest that you go back to that forum and ask them how to recover your old database.

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