Title: A path/database/siteurl issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# A path/database/siteurl issue

 *  [maxkhoward](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxkhoward/)
 * (@maxkhoward)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-pathdatabasesiteurl-issue/)
 * This is my first attempt at installing a wordpress blog and things are not going
   well.
 * When I first installed WordPress on my server, no styles could be found and therefore
   it would just appear as paragraphs of text.
 * I went into the mysql database using my hosts control panel and edited the “siteurl”
   field by removing the ?step=2 from the end of the url.
 * This worked and for the first time I could view the homepage and the cms. After
   looking around the CMS for a while I tried adding content to the “About” page
   but once I’d updated it, clicking the link from the homepage did nothing, in 
   fact I cannot view any pages except the homepage. Obviously the ?step=2 is essential
   to generating a page structure but I have no idea how to make this work.
 * Any help would be greatly appreciated. The URL is below
 * [http://maxkhoward.hpserve.co.uk](http://maxkhoward.hpserve.co.uk)

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-pathdatabasesiteurl-issue/#post-1198579)
 * > Obviously the ?step=2 is essential to generating a page structure but I have
   > no idea how to make this work.
 * no it isn’t
    check that BOTH url’s are correct [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 * then set your permalinks
    admin – settings – permalinks
 *  Thread Starter [maxkhoward](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxkhoward/)
 * (@maxkhoward)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-pathdatabasesiteurl-issue/#post-1198581)
 * Thank you SO MUCH.
 * It was so damn simple. If you EVER need children I will impregnate a stranger
   for you

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 * [database](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/database/)
 * [path](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/path/)
 * [siteurl](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/siteurl/)

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 * Last reply from: [maxkhoward](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maxkhoward/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/a-pathdatabasesiteurl-issue/#post-1198581)
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