Title: Accidental Redirect Loop/Website is down
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Accidental Redirect Loop/Website is down

 *  [jpope2012](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpope2012/)
 * (@jpope2012)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-redirect-loop/)
 * I have what seems like a complicated question that may or may not have a solution,
   but if anyone can help out I would be extremely grateful.
 * I recently had a wordpress.com blog, which I decided to move to a self-hosted
   wordpress.org location. On the old wordpress.com blog, I had purchased a unique
   domain (nuparc.org), which I wanted to keep. To that end, my goal was to have
   the nuparc.org address redirect to my new, self-hosted wordpress.org location.
 * One of my fellow helpers, decided to try and accomplish this by changing the 
   home URL of the self-hosted wordpress.org location to nuparc.org, which is the
   address for the old wordpress.com blog. So now whenever you type in my wordpress.
   org address, it redirects to the old wordpress.com blog. I have no way to access
   my dashboard to change this.
 * Where is this setting contained within my FTP? Can I change this back without
   accessing my dashboard?
 * Essentially, what I’m looking to do is change my site and home URL back to the
   same thing “groups.northwestern.edu/parc/Wordpress,” so that I can redo the redirect
   properly. Right now what happens is a loop (nuparc.org tries to redirect to groups.
   northwestern.edu/parc/Wordpress, which tries to redirect to nuparc.org, etc…)
 * Is this something that can be done? Please and thank you.

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 *  Thread Starter [jpope2012](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jpope2012/)
 * (@jpope2012)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-redirect-loop/#post-4239174)
 * Clarification: Rather than going to my self-hosted wordpress.org dashboard, it
   goes to the dashboard of my old wordpress.com blog dashboard – which doesn’t 
   have the settings page that I need to make the change back.
 * So what’s happening is my new wordpress.org website is redirecting to the old
   wordpress.com webpage. I need to make that not happen. Unfortunately, the only
   way to do that is to access my wordpress.org dashboard, which I cannot access
   as the website redirects.
 *  [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * (@kmessinger)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-redirect-loop/#post-4239196)
 * This has some different ways to fix it.
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [kmessinger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmessinger/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/accidental-redirect-loop/#post-4239196)
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