Title: Lost admin access Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Lost admin access * Resolved [mkirkwag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkirkwag/) * (@mkirkwag) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/) * I set up my site and was all set to tell the audience that it was there, right after I did this one…last…thing…and I killed it. * What I was trying to do was make a static post. Here’s where my descriptive powers are going to fail, because I can’t look at what I was doing, but it was something like this: in settings, there’s a place to specify what address of your site is and what you want the landing place to be if not the root site. At least I thought that’s what it meant. * I set the second address for a page that I wanted use as a home. Nothing changed. When I went to main address, it still went to the blog. So I tried changing the first address from [http://www.tribeofadmins.com](http://www.tribeofadmins.com) to [http://www.tribeofadmins.com/home](http://www.tribeofadmins.com/home). * Well. All the formating is gone, and /wp-admin redirects me to the blog. I tried [http://www.tribeofadmins.com](http://www.tribeofadmins.com) /home/wp-admin, but the result was the same. * Do I need to reinstall WP and start over, or is there an element I can replace? Thanks in advance – I’m leaving hair all over the floor. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [WordPress Hosting](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lzjimmy/) * (@lzjimmy) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986093) * You will need to update all links to new url in your database “wp-options” table * Thread Starter [mkirkwag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkirkwag/) * (@mkirkwag) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986252) * Sorry – don’t know how to find it. I’ve found a whole pack of “options-” files in the public_html>wp>admin file. I was looking at “options-permalink.php” and noticing this: include(‘admin-header.php’); * $home_path = get_home_path(); * and wondering if the url should be in that path, but given what happened the last time I started fooling around with settings, I didn’t want to try it without asking. * If that’s not the right place, would you mind directing me to the “wp-options” table? * Thread Starter [mkirkwag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkirkwag/) * (@mkirkwag) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986253) * I should have said – there is a file WP>Admin> options.php… I thought that was the right one, but expected there to be a url within it, but there isn’t, and I don’t see where one would (probably due to gross ignorance). * [mikey1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikey1/) * (@mikey1) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986255) * [http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=21](http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=21) [http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/](http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/) * mike. * Thread Starter [mkirkwag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkirkwag/) * (@mkirkwag) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986264) * Here’s something else I wonder: shouldn’t all my WP files be contained within one folder within the public_html file? There are 3 WP folders – admin, content, and includes – in the public_html folder. Then all the other WP files that don’t live in one of those folders are loose in the public_html folder. * [mikey1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mikey1/) * (@mikey1) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986265) * Hi again, what you’ve described is correct, you have installed wordpress in your route directory public_html.The three main wordpress directories, plus all the individual wordpress files, including config.php. you’ll need to edit the site url and blog url to reflect this. [http://www.tribeofadmins.com/](http://www.tribeofadmins.com/) as explained in the links above. hope you get there. mike. * Thread Starter [mkirkwag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkirkwag/) * (@mkirkwag) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986267) * Thanks, Mike – this gives me hope! * Thread Starter [mkirkwag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkirkwag/) * (@mkirkwag) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986277) * Mike, you are my hero. All fixed! * [Samuel B](https://wordpress.org/support/users/samboll/) * (@samboll) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986331) * > You will need to update all links to new url in your database “wp-options” > table * this is like 4 threads now you have advised people incorrectly to mess with their database. 1st – your solution was incorrect (which happens to all of us) 2nd– messing with the database is fairly advanced, especially for new users * Thread Starter [mkirkwag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkirkwag/) * (@mkirkwag) * [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986335) * Well, in all fairness, that is ultimately what Mike’s solution led me to – it’s just that I needed that fabulous step by step video to get there – or at least a hint as to how to get into the DB. I was trying to mess with - files * . I finally realized that it said “table,” but I wasn’t getting there on my own. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘Lost admin access’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [admin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/admin/) * [lost access](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/lost-access/) * [wrong URL](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wrong-url/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 10 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [mkirkwag](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mkirkwag/) * Last activity: [17 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/lost-admin-access-1/#post-986335) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics