Lost Access to Login: another thought

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    jhaber31 · Member ·

    I know I’ve asked for help in that I have lost access to the login URL. Maybe the URL has changed. As I posted, from my bookmark to logging in I don’t get the generic 404 file not found message, but rather a page display in my WordPress style, with header and sidebar, but its body just ‘sorry, no posts matched your criteria.’ The rest of my site displays quite normally; I just can’t add to it! You weren’t comfortable with my question, so let me approach it another way, if I may.

    I’ve read that one can get error messages of files not found because of a corrupt .htaccess file. I’ve read too that this can occur when a plugin updates, and in fact my problem began Thursday right after a plugin updated. (I forget which, but I don’t have many. Really just backup and anti-spam plugins.) Now, I don’t know if this is true, but I looked through my site for such a file. Turns out I have two.

    I mentioned that my WordPress installation is not in my root folder (which holds new content in static html as well as old static html content that preceded my using WordPress). It’s in its own folder. While I can’t swear how this was implemented when I started with WordPress, as I had help then, I know that you can set the folders from Settings, General. No special plugin for that is required. In any case, the two .htaccess files are in both these folders, the root and the blog folder.

    I’ve read that one can rename or delete the old file and let WordPress generate a new one, that takes logging in, going to Settings, Permalinks, and saving the settings. Of course I can’t log in. I’ve also ready that one can write over the file with a default. Anyhow, first, though, let me ask about my two files. Should I have both? Thank you.

    WP.com: Yes
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    justjennifer · Member ·

    Hi there, Staff previously replied to you at https://wordpress.com/forums/topic/cant-acess-login/

    Please see their replies and follow up there if you have other questions. Thanks.

    Marking as a duplicate.

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    jhaber31 · Member ·

    All right, no help at all for me. There was a separate community forum, wasn’t there? I can’t find it.

    BTW, you wouldn’t want to host my site, and moving it would be a monster. I have more than 1400 html documents of real content, about 2,000 words each, in the root folder (and accompanying images in subfolders), quite apart from my measly WordPress blog.

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