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1. breakingranks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Recently my client's wordpress-based web site was hacked, and after hours and hours of clean-up, there's one problem I can't fix.

   The index.php for the blog doesn't work. It redirects to Tripod - a competitor of the actual web host (Dreamhost).

   The redirect occurs whether the url ends with / or /index.php. I see nothing wrong with the index.php in that directory. I see nothing wrong with the files index.php calls. I've tried searching the whole site for the word "tripod" and I can't find it.

   I've looked at the .htaccess for both the top directory and the subdirectory with wordpress, and again I see nothing wrong. In both cases Mod Rewrite uses a relative URL.

   In the directory for the blog, there is only an index.php, no index.htm/html

   The web site is here. I've only left one link to the blog on the bottom of the home page - if you click that you will see the problem.

   Any ideas? :(

2. webjunk
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Would help immensley if we could see the site but you did not provide a link. Want to post one?
   If it was hacked then maybe you did not clean everything up. Have you tried replacing the index.php with a fresh one from WP? Did you check what the default Page is set to in WP? Did you try replacing the existing index.php with just a basic html (non WP) version of index.php? Did you do a search of the database for tripod?

3. breakingranks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi there, thanks for the reply. Oops, I see I provided the link to the site instead of the blog page. The blog index page should be here.

   I did try searching the DB for tripod, and I'm still looking for hacked files. This hacking occured a month after I installed 2.7.1 and took various security precautions, so obviously I missed something the first time. :(

   The path to the Default Page is right in the Dashboard Settings. Is there also a file I should look at for this?

   I haven't tried replacing index.php because I don't see any hack code in it, but I will give that a try.

4. breakingranks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Replacing index.php from a new copy of wordpress didn't work. :(

   I also suddenly got the option to automatically re-install with automatic update today (I didn't seem to have that option yesterday - AU just told me I had the most current version). I did the re-install, and I'm still getting the Tripod page. :(

5. webjunk
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Looks like you fixed it.

6. breakingranks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Yes, now it's showing one post. I'm not sure at what point that one post started showing because I had to clean out my browser cache again. =/

   Unfortunately it's still broken because it only shows the latest post, not the index page with a list of blog posts. :(

7. breakingranks
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Fixed!

   I had to deactivate two plug-ins:

   WP-Email and WP-Print, both by Lester 'GaMerZ' Chan. Neither of these plug-ins were working correctly even though they showed as updated on the Plug-ins page. I'll look for some other plug-ins to replace them.

   Replacing the blog page reminded me that WP 2.7.1 ruined the font-size on my blogroll and link lists. More to fix. T_T

8. webjunk
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It looks to me like its the whole site anjd all blogs..
   Looking for help organizing a dignity movement to combat rankism
   Power of Naming
   Dignity Map
   All there...

9. webjunk
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Might be the plugins were hacked. Get fresh copies. I have Never once had an issue with any of Lester's plugins. Am a supporter of his. well worth it. And if you still have the problem ask him. He is very good.

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