Locked out of wp-admin by incorrect wordpress site address in settings

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  fineartat · Member · Feb 6, 2013 at 12:16 pm

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  Hi,

  I’m an inexperienced wordpress user, and I’ve managed to inadvertently lock myself out of wp-admin.

  I recently installed wordpress, created a blog post and was able to see it by using <my site>/blog. I could make adjustments, update and the changes would take effect and I coudl view them from my own site.

  I then added jetpack to wordpress and my blog post was not able to be accessed any more.

  If I tried to access my blog (as I had before) by adding ‘blog/’ at the end of my own site address and IE9 or Safari would simply display a 404 code. My blog post was still at wordpress but was not able to be accessed from my site any more.

  Because entering the ‘<my site>/blog’ was bringing up my site index page, I thought that amending the wordpress site address in settings, by adding ‘/blog’ as a suffix would sort this out. (this was my big mistake). I anticipate lots of knowing laughter at this point.

  I then found that not only did my blog not appear (as before), but I could no longer access wp-admin. When I now try to access wp-admin it shows a 404 page because (I assume) it is looking for wp-admin in <my site>/blog instead of <my site>.

  If I log in to my wordpress account, and try to access wp-admin the same thing happens, which means I can’t access wp-admin to amend the wordpress site address. Effectively I’m locked out whichever way I try.

  Can someone please tell me how I can either, amend or restore my wordpress site address in settings, reset wordpress to default values, or completely remove wordpress and start again.

  I then of course have my old problem of not being able to access my blog, when I had been able to pre jetpack, but this would be relative bliss compared to this lock out.

  Any help gratefully appreciated. IS.

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  notawoodpecker · Member · Feb 6, 2013 at 12:19 pm

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  Sounds like you might need to be over here:

  http://wordpress.org/support/

  For more on the differences, see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/com-vs-org/

  There’s also a separate board for Jetpack support:

  http://wordpress.org/support/plugin/jetpack

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  fineartat · Member · Feb 6, 2013 at 1:09 pm

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  Thanks notawoodpecker.

  I followed advice in http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL:

  1. I added ‘define(‘RELOCATE’,true);’ to my wp-config.php file.
  2. I ran wp-admin.php with an absolute url a couple of times.
  3. I then logged in at WordPress login and was able to access wp-admin and my settings.

  I found that my home and site addresses had reset to default values.
  I then removed the addition from wp-config.php.

  IS.