I Broke WordPress
Posted: Mon May 02, 2011 10:00 pm
And now i have to fix it.
So i was playing with WordPress to the point it was unusable. The last thing i changed was the "Site URL" on the general settings page. I entered the wrong url here then all the links stopped working and i was unable to log into the WordPress dashboard.
After a while of fighting, i gave up and uninstalled Wordpress, rebooted the server then re-installed Wordpress. It didn't work, i was faced with a blank screen. I have tried un-installing and clearing the amahi-download-cache, clearing my browsers cache. Non of this worked.
I finally installed phpmyadmin and looked at the database for Wordpress. To my surprise the database contained old data from the initial install. When i remove Wordpress, this database also goes. But re-install wordpress and the database returns complete with old data.
Does anyone know where this database is being held and how can i purge it to return it to its new install state? I just want to return it to the state it was in after it was first installed.
Thanks
Peter
So i was playing with WordPress to the point it was unusable. The last thing i changed was the "Site URL" on the general settings page. I entered the wrong url here then all the links stopped working and i was unable to log into the WordPress dashboard.
After a while of fighting, i gave up and uninstalled Wordpress, rebooted the server then re-installed Wordpress. It didn't work, i was faced with a blank screen. I have tried un-installing and clearing the amahi-download-cache, clearing my browsers cache. Non of this worked.
I finally installed phpmyadmin and looked at the database for Wordpress. To my surprise the database contained old data from the initial install. When i remove Wordpress, this database also goes. But re-install wordpress and the database returns complete with old data.
Does anyone know where this database is being held and how can i purge it to return it to its new install state? I just want to return it to the state it was in after it was first installed.
Thanks
Peter