Title: Cannot acces admin
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Cannot acces admin

 *  [davewarren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davewarren/)
 * (@davewarren)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-acces-admin/)
 * The site was working fine. Then I went to access admin but it now pointing to
   my home directory instead on my /news directory. Also the theme dropped out so
   my site looks basic.
    Unable to access admin means I can’t do updates, etc. Any
   ideas?

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 *  [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/)
 * (@samboll)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-acces-admin/#post-1253213)
 * so fix the url’s back to what they were before you changed them
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_The_Site_URL)
 * if you want to move wordpress – do it properly
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site](http://codex.wordpress.org/Moving_WordPress#Moving_WordPress_Within_Your_Site)
 *  Thread Starter [davewarren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davewarren/)
 * (@davewarren)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-acces-admin/#post-1253231)
 * Sorry for being a novice at this, but thank you for the fix – it worked fie and
   I appreciate the information.

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 * [wrong directory](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wrong-directory/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 2 replies
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 * Last reply from: [davewarren](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davewarren/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-acces-admin/#post-1253231)
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