--- title: "Changing WordPress URL and Home URL" canonical_url: "https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/" post_type: "ht_kb" published: "2025-01-10T08:50:15+00:00" modified: "2025-07-03T12:32:15+00:00" language: "en" author: "silver" taxonomies: ht_kb_category: - name: "WordPress" url: "https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb-categories/wordpress-en/" --- # Changing WordPress URL and Home URL Changing WordPress URL and home URL is fairly simple, but there are three quite different methods to do it. Below, we’ll take a closer look at how to change URLs in each version. ## 1. Changing from the WordPress admin panel In order to change your WordPress Site URL and Home URLs, first log in to the WordPress admin panel and navigate to `Settings` → `General Settings`. On the `General Settings` page, enter the new addresses in both the `WordPress Address (URL)` and `Site Address (URL)` fields and click `Save Changes` at the bottom of the page. Setting up an alias domain If you have an alias domain connected to your virtual server and you want the website to use the alias domain as its main domain, replace “yourdomain.fi” with the alias domain name. [![Changing WordPress URL and home URL in WordPress admin panel.](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/Changing-Site-URL-and-Home-URL.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url/) ## 2. Changing URL via the database ### Database user credentials First of all, you need to find database username and password, which you can use to access the database. Login to My Zone control panel and click on the shortcut `Files` under `Web and E-mail`. [![](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/Changing-Site-URL-and-Home-URL1-1024x519.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url1/) Open the directory where the WordPress page is installed (if the page is installed on the main domain, it is `htdocs` by default). [![](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/Changing-Site-URL-and-Home-URL2.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url2/) To change the URL, open the `wp-config.php` file (right click and `Edit`). [![Changing WordPress URL and home URL in database.](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/Changing-Site-URL-and-Home-URL3.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url3/) You can find the database username and password between the `define()` function, next to `DB_USER` and `DB_PASSWORD` respectively, separated by commas and quotes. Copy them to a separate temporary text file so that they are immediately available. [![](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/wp_temporary_url3-1.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/wp_temporary_url3-2/) ### Logging in to database The easiest way to connect to the database is to do it through the phpMyAdmin control panel. If you still have the My Zone control panel open on a separate tab, you can access the phpMyAdmin by choosing `Databases` from the left menu in the server management and then `phpMyAdmin`. If you managed to close My Zone already, the direct link to phpMyAdmin is [HERE](https://pma.hel01.zone.eu/) When going from the direct link, first enter your domain name without the www prefix (e.g. domain.fi) and press `Go`. [![](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/wp_temporary_url4-e1751535522947.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/?attachment_id=11471) On the next screen, enter the database (MySQL) username and password that you copied from the `wp-config.php` file.[![](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/Changing-Site-URL-and-Home-URL7.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url7/)### Changing WordPress URL In the phpMyAdmin panel, click on the database name in the left block, then select `wp_options` in the opened option (instead of wp, table may also have a different prefix). [![Changing WordPress URL requires logging in phpMyAdmin panel, where click on the database name in the left block, then select wp_options in the opened option (instead of wp, table may also have a different prefix).](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/Changing-Site-URL-and-Home-URL8.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url8/) Find the `siteurl` line and double-click the URL that is currently its value. Replace it with new URL and press `Enter` on your keyboard. Do the same on the line with `home`. [![](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/changing-site-url-and-home-url9-3.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url9-4/) After changing the `siteurl` and `home` addresses, you may also need to clear the cache of the website, this can be done by pressing `CTRL + SHIFT + DELETE`. ## 3. Changing URL via the wp-config.php file Changing WordPress URL and Home URL is also possible via modifying URL-s in `wp-config.php` file. Login to My Zone control panel and click on the shortcut `Files` under `Web and E-mail`. [![Changing WordPress URL and home URL in wp-config.php file.](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/Changing-Site-URL-and-Home-URL1-1024x519.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url1/) Open the directory where the WordPress page is installed (if the page is installed on the main domain, it is `htdocs` by default). [![](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/Changing-Site-URL-and-Home-URL2.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url2/) Then open the `wp-config.php` file (right click and `Edit`). [![](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/Changing-Site-URL-and-Home-URL3.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-site-url-and-home-url3/) In the `wp-config.php` file, look for the line “**Add any custom values between this line and the “stop editing” line.”**. After this line, enter the following configuration: ``` define( 'WP_HOME', 'https://yourdomain.com/' ); define( 'WP_SITEURL', 'https://yourdomain.com/' ); ``` [![](https://www.speedzone.fi/static/sites/5/changing-siteurl-1.png)](https://www.speedzone.fi/tuki/en/kb/changing-wordpress-site-url-and-home-url/changing-siteurl-2/) Save the changes and the website will open from the new URL. After the change, you may need to clear the website cache and the browser cache.