So, to begin with - I had the latest version of wordpress running, while I was fixing up my site. I installed it in a sub-directory of my hosting account, associated with a domain name. It was installed and running smoothly in http://www.example.com/1
I used a GoDaddy (provider) feature of moving the site automatically to the root directory. Then the problems began...
The site seemed to no longer work, after a while of playing around with different possible solutions (which all pretty much gave me different, but still non-working outcomes) what seemed to work (momentarily) was changing the URL of the website in the MySQL database.
Edit Delete 1 siteurl http://example.com/1 yes
Edit Delete 37 home http://example.com/1 yes
When I edit both of these lines to the root directory the site loads up beautifully. Success!
However - right after this happens the values seem to change back to the example.com/1 configuration... So, again, the site looses functionality and even if I refresh it a second later - no go.
I was unable to find any file in the FTP that contains the line example.com/1 , so I am at a bit of a loss as to why this happens. I don't see any script responsible for this.
When I tried changing the WB/Site URL values through the admin page (before the site relocation) they seemed to always stay the same... http://www.example.com/1 - the site ponged me that the changes have been made but the values stayed the same
It seems to me somewhere within the system there is a script automatically changing them back when the site loads.
I tried hardcoding these lines into the wp-config -
define('WP_HOME','http://example.com');
define('WP_SITEURL','http://example.com');
- but no results :(
Anyone have any suggestions?