wp-admin link suddenly stopped working

thanks for your patience
it says

https://marcusassoc.net/wordpress/

Okay, let’s try something. Because that is also the network, temporarily remove /wordpress/ and tell me what happens.

okay, it break the dashboard (url not found) and the /wordpress site will load the first page only

okay, put it back. That’s fine.

I put it back, but the dashboard stayed broken, no login

change the site in wp_2_options back to include /wordpress

I need to take a break real quick. Let’s get this thing functioning again.

I really really appreciate your help. You don;t know what it means.

I changed wp_2, and the dashboard is back.

Yeah, it’s the issue of trying to change the url to the root site. I don’t want to change links until the site shows as the root url. Otherwise you will wind up with a site that isn’t working and would have the pleasure of rebuilding the site.

One question. Did you back up the site before you started?
If you didn’t, you should go ahead and backup the database now.

Is there anything in the root .htaccess file other than the WordPress information?

Also, because there seems to be an issue that I cannot see, please replace the /wordpress in wp_2_options “home”. That should bring back the navigation.

Okay. I copied everything out of the directory yesterday, including .htaccess and downloaded the SQL db, so we;re good there.

this is the contents of teh root htaccess file
# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ – [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress

Changed wp2 “home” and the navi works.

Oh..

I hope that’s a good “oh”

The other content should have been in the root .htaccess file. That should have been in the subdirectory .htaccess file.