Accidentally Updated Wordpress URL to Include SSL, Now Cannot Login

Hi @lukebdcd5b91a1e99b537b20fd,

Before you make any changes, I’ll recommend creating a snapshot:

https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/images/snapshots/

Once that is done and you have a backup, you can use wp-cli. WP-CLI is the command-line interface for WordPress. You can update plugins, configure multisite installations and much more, without using a web browser.

First, to install WP-CLI:

curl -O https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wp-cli/builds/gh-pages/phar/wp-cli.phar
chmod +x wp-cli.phar
sudo mv wp-cli.phar /usr/local/bin/wp

Navigate to your WordPress directory

cd /var/www/example.com/

where /var/www/example.com/ is the path to your website’s home directory. Once in there, create a DB backup running

wp db export

then do a test run

wp search-replace 'https://example.com' 'http://example.com' --dry-run

If everything looks good, you can run in without the --dry-run option:

wp search-replace 'https://example.com' 'http://example.com' 

Of course, remember to change example.com with your own domain name.