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1. fairlyordinary
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Believe it or not, after the 2.6 upgrade...this is what my index.php file says:

   <?php
   // Silence is golden.
   ?>

   What a horrible, horrible joke. Is anyone else having this issue?

2. mrmist
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   That's the index.php from the wp-content directory. Quite how it would have ended up in your root directory I do not know.

   The root one should contain -
   

   <?php
   /**
    * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
    * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
    *
    * @package WordPress
    */
   
   /**
    * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
    *
    * @var bool
    */
   define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);
   
   /** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
   require('./wp-blog-header.php');
   ?>

3. picoa
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Same thing just happened to me and I also thought it was a cruel joke. Then I poked around some more and retraced my steps and realized that I did in fact copy and thus overwrite the index.php file, from my wp-contents folder to my site directory on accident.

   If you were using the command-line approach like me you may have made the the following syntax mistake when copying over your current content to the upgrade folder prior to replacing the current content:

   cp -rf ~/blog/wp-content/ .

   The line is supposed to be:

   cp -rf ~/blog/wp-content .

   That extra slash will take the files *inside* of wp-content and copy them to your site directory, thus overwriting your index.php file with the useless one from wp-content.

   Evidence that this happened included the fact that my plugin/ and theme/ folders were also copied into my site directory.. odd? and that the wp-content directory itself was not successfully copied over. I caught the latter error, but not the former until I saw my blank blog and the seemingly ill-humored index.php file which I thought came with the new upgrade :)

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