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1. boxxen
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Hi all

   Any help on this would be much appreciated.

   My website recently became corrupted: the home page is there but all other pages, including the login page, are blank. Obviously, I have no access to the admin area. This happened spontaneously - ie I hadn't upgraded / installed / posted anything for a few weeks beforehand.

   I noticed in the backend that several new and random php files had appeared in the root directory - looks like I've been hacked. So I deleted all files and reinstalled the backup I had of the home directory. No joy.

   I've also tried:
   - Checking the mod_rewrite settings in the htaccess file
   - Reimporting the database from a backup
   - Changing the PHP memory limit from 32 to 64
   - Checking for extra blank lines in wp-config
   - Disabling all plugins via phpMyAdmin
   - Checking file permissions (all folders 755 and all files 644 - is this correct?)

   I still have the same problem: the home page works, nothing else does.

   My htaccess file looks like this:
   

   # BEGIN WordPress
   <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
   RewriteEngine On
   RewriteBase /
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
   RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
   RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
   </IfModule>
   # END WordPress

   Any help would be hugely appreciated - I've run out of ideas.

   Thanks!

2. nsathees
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   if your .htaccess file is more than couple of bytes (> 300) open the file and scroll all the way down and check that there are no other entries below the visible area. I had once this problem and took me more than 1 hour to find that out.

3. boxxen
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Thanks - just double checked and it's not that, but I suspect it's something equally simple / annoying!

4. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Have you tried switching to the Twenty Eleven theme to rule out any theme-specific problems.

5. boxxen
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Thanks for the suggestion - just tried that and no joy.

   My error log is showing some "File does not exist" errors, if that helps..

6. esmi
   Theme Diva & Forum Moderator
   Posted 7 months ago #

   What file is being referenced?

7. boxxen
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   The log has been wiped now but it was referencing the 404 page and several categories (which are in the menu).

   I've neglected the site for quite a while so suspect this may be down to the outdated theme / plugins / WP version but tried turning theme / plugin off through phpMyAdmin and no joy.

   Anyway, thanks!

8. boxxen
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   This is the site if it helps anyone work out what's going on: http://www.listentoafrica.com/

9. kionae
   Member
   Posted 7 months ago #

   Have you tried simply setting debug to true in your wp-config.php file? That should at least give the error that's killing PHP on internal pages, which might point you in the right direction.

10. boxxen
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    Bingo - thank you!

    Fatal error: Cannot redeclare wp_clone() (previously declared in /***/***/public_html/wp-settings.php:283) in /***/***/public_html/wp-includes/functions.php on line 2902

    So, I fixed that (using these suggestions). Now getting a database connection error but should be able to fix that.

    Thanks! Progress at last...

11. boxxen
    Member
    Posted 7 months ago #

    OK, this is resolved. Not sure I can help anyone else having this problem in future though as mine was caused by multiple issues, mostly around outdated plugins (CMS Navigation was a major culprit) as well as being stuck on a very old version of WP. After several attempts to restore both the database and the home directory (with plugins disabled), I finally managed to log into the admin and update everything.

    Anyway, thanks for the help - resolved.

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