Help! I changed domain name by accident!

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  cormie1 · Member · Aug 14, 2023 at 7:52 am

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  Hi all,

  I have access to our school’s website to update it but don’t have a great knowledge of wordpress.

  In error, I changed our domain name from our address to our address/home (as I was having a few issues with the homepage) as in http://www.school.ie to http://www.school.ie/home

  Now none of our users can access (as the domain is now different)

  Any way we can get someone to login and simply change it back….stress levels high here!

  Thanks!

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  staartmees · Member · Aug 14, 2023 at 7:56 am

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  We can’t help as your site isn’t running on the WordPress.com platform but is self-hosted. You must change the URL directly in the database yourself as described at https://wordpress.org/documentation/article/changing-the-site-url/#changing-the-url-directly-in-the-database

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  aleone89 · Staff · Sep 19, 2023 at 5:15 pm

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  Hey there,

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