mbmusgrove

Wow -this was a lifesaver-I was freaking out when I couldnt log in suddenly! I FTPd the server also, deleted Akismet, logged in with no probs, and reinstalled it.

Joseph-

Thank you SO much for your help with this. You (patiently) solved my most stressful problems and taught me some valuable things as well, which is why I set this website up in the first place(to learn).

Thanks again!

Michael

No worries at all; I suppose I didn’t explain how ignorant and tired I am, because I cannot figure out how to even access the public_html folder on my server.

By the way, everything else is up and running–Thanks!!

I’m going to have to go to bed now and try again in a few hours.
Thank you for your help Joseph!

Sheesh, I’m dumb. I don’t see anything like that anywhere. I only have 5 pages on my site and have looked at the code for each and see nothing that resembles:

# 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

The index.php (which I thought was my root folder) looks like this:

[Large code excerpt removed by moderator per forum rules. Please use the pastebin for all large code excerpts. It works better anyway.]

But I’m thinking neither of these is what I’m looking for and don’t know where else to realistically look. I obviously know nothing about this. I don’t know how to access the https://www.michaelmusgrove.com/blog page anymore (The parent directory just takes me to https://www.michaelmusgrove.com, where it isn’t listed as a page any longer.

I searched for .htaccess within the source code and nothing appeared. I looked online for answers out of embarassment but also found nothing of help to my specific dilemma, but nada. It is getting late/early where I am so maybe I missed it but I don’t think so.

I’m sorry to be so obtuse, but can you be any more specific?

Thanks a million,
Michael

You, Joseph, are awesome. One more dumb question as I try to untangle my mess, as I’m getting tired of assuming things incorrectly.

Where exactly am I looking for my .htaccess in my root folder, and am I adding the 301 redirect at the VERY beginning? I went to the index.php page–is that where I’m sticking that code? Or is it n the Header.php page, beneath <title>? Or am I not even close? I’m sure you (or anyone reading this) are rolling your eyes, but I can’t take much more trial and error learning tonight. It ‘s been mostly error.

Thanks SO much for your quick and VERY helpful response!!

Michael