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Wordpress - Can't Login As Put ww. instead of www. HELP!

by keyaziz
13 replies
Hi,

I accidentally put ww. instead of www. in the settings part on wordpress. It wouldn't let me resave to www. and I keep getting a "url not found" page. I can't login in as a result either as it goes straight to a not found page again.

Does anyone know how to solve this? Can I change something using my FTP?

Thanks,

Kelly
#login #put #wordpress #www
  • Profile picture of the author buncoh
    try this.

    don't put w w w . Just write

    Code:
    yourwordpress.c0m/wp-admin
    and go to the setting panel, change the URL. It might be working
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    • Profile picture of the author keyaziz
      Hi,

      that doesn't work

      even when I try to login without the www it stills says url not found.
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  • Profile picture of the author Dean Martin
    You're going to have to dig into your database and make the change.

    Using phpmyadmin - do a search, choose all your database tables and do a search for ww.yourdomain
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    • Profile picture of the author keyaziz
      Aww thank you just knowing I had to sort it in there made it easy enough.

      All sorted.
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  • Profile picture of the author VegasGreg
    I did that once by adding www, (comma, not dot) and it jacked everything up. Luckily it was a fresh install and I just deleted the site from my servers and reloaded it.

    I looked in the phpadim area, but couldn't get it. I guess I didn't look hard enough. I thought I knew how to fix nearly everything in WP, but that one stumped me. Now I know. Thanks!
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  • Profile picture of the author childtalent
    it should be inside the wp-option table
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  • Profile picture of the author awesometbn
    Another option is to create an add-on domain called WW. In the newly created subdirectory you can create an .htaccess file with the following content.

    Code:
    <Files .htaccess>
order allow,deny
deny from all
</Files>

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^ww.example.com$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.ww.example.com$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ "http://www.example.com" [R=301,L]
    This works well on Apache web servers to redirect anyone who mistypes the URL with WW instead of WWW. You can do the same thing for other common mistakes like W or WWWW.
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  • Profile picture of the author jamespitt
    but to do that you're going to need to get the DNS setup as well - ww.example.com won't map though to example.com unless you explicitly set it up.
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    • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
      I'd just set up the ww.example.com subdomain so that it's assigned to the same folder as your Wordpress installation and go from there.

      If this is a brand new Wordpress install, I'd just scrap it and start all over.

      Either way, it would only take 5 minutes.
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      • Profile picture of the author ckchin
        Originally Posted by mojojuju View Post

        I'd just set up the ww.example.com subdomain so that it's assigned to the same folder as your Wordpress installation and go from there.

        If this is a brand new Wordpress install, I'd just scrap it and start all over.

        Either way, it would only take 5 minutes.


        You are right up to this point.
        You can solve this problem. But, you create another problem unintentionally...
        You will create duplicated content, which Google dislike.
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        • Profile picture of the author mojojuju
          Originally Posted by ckchin View Post


          You are right up to this point.
          You can solve this problem. But, you create another problem unintentionally...
          You will create duplicated content, which Google dislike.
          Well no, not really. If it's a fresh Wordpress install (with no content) how could any duplicate content be created?
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    • Profile picture of the author awesometbn
      Originally Posted by jamespitt View Post

      but to do that you're going to need to get the DNS setup as well - ww.example.com won't map though to example.com unless you explicitly set it up.
      James the add-on domain feature does this for you. Or I should say, at least it does with Hostgator. Not sure about other web hosting providers.
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  • Profile picture of the author houdy
    In case anyone else needs the info, I have a post on my site for this specific issue here: Changed WordPress Address And Can't Login
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