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wordpress just suddenly stopped working (20 posts)

  1. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 3 years ago #

    So out of the blue, WordPress just stopped working for me.

    I checked my friends blog (also hosted on the same server) and it wasn't loading either. I'm fairly certain our blogs were loading a day or two ago and I haven't changed anything on the server. I got an e-mail from my Spamkarma plugin verifying that as well...

    I tried installing another copy and it just hangs for awhile before white paging or asking me to download index.php

    I'm getting no errors.

    Any ideas on what's wrong?

    edit: all other things on the server work fine. And they're all PHP pages.

    I'm running PHP 4.4.4.

  2. hotkee
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Have you looked into any error logs being generated?

  3. rishk789
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    This is happening to me too. =(. Out of curiosity, who's your webhost? I use Dot5Hosting.

  4. rishk789
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Let me describe my problem, and let's see if anyone else has this exact same issue. First of all, I didn't tamper with anything. I posted a blog entry last night, several friends viewed it (including myself), and I woke up this morning with a broken WordPress. =(.

    I can access all the admin pages (even managing particular posts/pages). However, I cannot access the dashboard, and therefore, cannot access the /wp-admin directory (as it takes you directly to the dashboard). I'm unable to access my main website (http://www.rishi-kumar.com) as it times out. I've tried disabling all the plugins, but this problem persists.

  5. hotkee
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    rishk789, Seems to me that something in your index.php has changed - suggested route would be to check what is in the index.php file - if it doesnt match the default index.php from wordpress then replace it with the default. And maybe post the contents as they are now on this forum.

    And also seems to me that you may have set up or edited your .htaccess file so check what that is doing.

  6. rishk789
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Hello hotkee, I've checked both and they're identical. I "upgraded" to beta 3 of the WP 2.6, so the index.php is the same as the install default. My FTP server said that my htaccess was modified yesterday, but I don't see any glaring differences.

    .htaccess contents:

    DirectoryIndex index.php
    AuthName rishi-kumar.com
    
    # BEGIN WPSuperCache
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
    RewriteCond %{HTTP:Accept-Encoding} gzip
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz -f
    RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html.gz [L]
    
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_METHOD} !=POST
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*s=.*
    RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} !.*attachment_id=.*
    RewriteCond %{HTTP_COOKIE} !^.*(comment_author_|wordpress|wp-postpass_).*$
    RewriteCond %{DOCUMENT_ROOT}/wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html -f
    RewriteRule ^(.*) /wp-content/cache/supercache/%{HTTP_HOST}/$1/index.html [L]
    </IfModule>
    
    # END WPSuperCache
    # BEGIN WordPress
    <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
    RewriteEngine On
    RewriteBase /
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
    </IfModule>
    
    # END WordPress

    index.php

    <?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');
    ?>
  7. hotkee
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I would try disabling super-cache plugin in then - and if you cant access admin, then at least reset your .htaccess to the default setting.

  8. rishk789
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I've disabled all the plugins, heh. And tried reuploading my .htaccess file without the Super-Cache parameters.

  9. hotkee
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Well upgrading to a beta version might be the cause - I never do that myself.

    When you say you re-uploaded .htaccess then does it contain the supercache as you have described above - I would expect just

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

    # END WordPress

  10. rishk789
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    You're right. What I meant was that I tried just uploading the basic WP .htaccess parameters, but that didn't work. So I replaced it with my original .htaccess (containing the Super-Cache parameters). I suppose I'll upload another copy of WP 2.5.1 and overwrite the files?

  11. hotkee
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Before doing that is there error log file being generated?

  12. rishk789
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    My webhost is sort of... weird. I found an "accesslog" document from my webhost, but is there anywhere else I could search for an error log?

  13. hotkee
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    In your wordpress directory, maybe a file called error_log

  14. rishk789
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I can't find it. =/.

  15. hotkee
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Well in that case I dont know - The beta version might be broken or your database is messed up. If you try to downgrade to 2.5.1 I wouldnt know if it would work.

    You might try replacing all your existing files with fresh copy from the beta install.

  16. rishk789
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I'll try that hotkee! Thanks for spending the time to help! I hope this works.

  17. Anonymous
    Unregistered
    Posted 3 years ago #

    FYI: I'm not getting any errors at all. It just loads a blank page after a few seconds.

    I tried a fresh/clean install but to no avail. I host it on a VPS but I don't recall having changed anything...

    Every page is blank for me, even WP-Admin. The only page that loads is the upgrade page but it just tells me I don't need to upgrade.

    I'm using 2.5.1

  18. hotkee
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    drcru, whats your site url?

  19. Greenguru
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Same issue... out of the blue wordpress stopped working (admin still works)Disabled all plugins, Upgraded to the latest version of wordpress, No error Logs, tried different themes and they are all hanging?

  20. High Aspirations, Inc.
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    I'm having the same problem as Greenguru. Everything was fine until I changed the tagline of my site now admin works fine can even change themes, but the site itself won't load. I've comepletely removed the tagline disabled all plugins to no avail. Running version 2.6.2

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