When I surf to my Wordpress blog: http://www.gameshoppers.net it automatically goes to http://gameshoppers.net without the www. Also, I can't get into my WP-admin Any advice?
It could be something with the .htaccess, I updated my permalinks but after I updated them everything still worked...
# BEGIN WordPress <IfModule mod_rewrite.c> RewriteEngine On RewriteBase / RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.gameshoppers\.net$ [NC] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.gameshoppers.net/$1 [R,L] RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d RewriteRule . /index.php [L] </IfModule> # END WordPress Code (markup): I found that I should edit it to that, but it doesn't work out for me. Anyone any experience with this?
Yeah I'm doing a reinstall right now. Thanks for the advice EDIT: Really freaky, I re-installed Wordpress, admin panel works again but I had to recent my password because I was still using the autogenerated password I received when installing Wordpress a couple of days ago and now it doesn't want to send me a new password: Please enter your username or e-mail address. You will receive a new password via e-mail. Sorry, that key does not appear to be valid. That's what I get when I click the link to get a new password... EDIT 2: I can login again, but the www. problem is still there...
why do people reply withjust re-install? its the cheap way out, ok your blog could be new so re-installing it would be easier then fixing but what about if it was a popular blog and it happened, would your reply still be just re-install it? what do you plan on learning that way? thats the redirect that could be causing the problem btw
I just figured that this guy knew about as much as me about this stuff...so I told him what I would do if I were in his shoes...you can back your stuff up and reinstall its not hard...
still, its like cheating in an exam, you might get the results you wanted, but your only gonna get caught out later on. if your blog ever becomes successful, and this happens again would you really wanna re-install and restore? might sound straight forward but not always easy, especially if you have a crappy host. you should have to re-install just because a redirect messed up, if thats your solution to a simple redirect error what will you do if your database corrupts? start from fresh?
I dont understand why you are getting all angry at me? Its a simple thing...you just save your back up files every week and then you dont have to worry about losing anything..and since he said he didnt want to lose files i assumed that it was a fairly new domain...and i figured all the technical mumbo jumbo wouldnt make since to him anyway... Take a chill pill man...its going to be ok
Everything seems to be alright now..i am getting the admin panel and now the redirect is not happening,..
Woot! Did you ever tried changing the blog address from manage, general? Lol. Maybe you just had a no www there, if you did it wouldn't take you where you are. When you reinstall it, it comes back to default and thats the one with the www
Like i said I dont know much about this, but if you are using something like hostgator or something with CPANEL you might be able to get it from there...it could be something in there... also...did you end up reinstalling?
I reinstalled, but it was indeed something with my settings. Normally I don't have to change anything and it immediately has www.domain.com as the adress