Can’t log on to blog – help!

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  rachelmurphy · Member · Jan 20, 2008 at 2:26 am

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  Hello,

  I have only just started blogging and I have done something really stupid and can’t log in.
  I was trying to set up permalinks for my blog. It was originally in the format: http://www.mysite.com/blog.

  My hosting provider uses Windows servers so I couldn’t add permalinks the normal way and it didn’t work when I tried to add /index.php/%postname% either

  I then saw a blog saying that it might work if you were to add /index.php to your url, so in the wordpress interface where you fill in details about your blog, I changed the blogs url to http://www.mysite.com/blog/index.php

  Now, I can see my blog – but all the formatting and templates have gone! I can’t log back into it to change the url back to http://www.mysite.com and get it back to normal.

  Please can someone help me correct this? I was so pleased with the blog and have posted every day this month so far and I am devastated I can’t get it working…Thanks in advance.

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  sulz · Member · Jan 20, 2008 at 2:31 am

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  i think you have a self-hosted blog, in which case you have to go to http://wordpress.org/support to place your query. this is the forum for bloggers hosted by wp.com. please correct me if i’m mistaken.

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  ellaella · Member · Jan 20, 2008 at 2:31 am

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  The terms ‘hosting provider’ and ‘php’ lead me to believe you are self-hosted. If so, you need to be at the forum at wordpress.org/support. This forum is for free blogs hosted at wordpress.com. We have no access to our php files.

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  rachelmurphy · Member · Jan 20, 2008 at 2:33 am

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  Oops – thanks for the advice – I’ll go to wordpress.org and ask.