• First, I did do a search, but couldn’t find an answer to my problem: About two weeks ago, I downloaded my entire website: http://www.communichi.org into Dreamweaver. However, as I was downloading, I noticed that inside the images subfolder of the WordPress blog, there were about 300 junk files which seemed the work of some sort of spam/hacker attack. They had lots of nonsense keywords. Actually, it looked like they had been there since last October, without causing any damage, but I decided I wanted to get rid of them.

    And here, I made a fatal error, I deleted the files directly from the server, not my local copy of the website, and, although I thought my blog was backed up, it wasn’t, and….after deleting the files, apparently, I deleted some files which were critical, and the blog crashed.

    The webserver (AN hosting) helped me to restore all the missing files, except that they said that somehow the wp_config.php was damaged and needed to be rebuilt. They say that the database, which contains the 125 or so blog posts I’ve written over the past 2.5 years is intact, but they are inaccessible because somehow the wp-config.php file was somehow damaged. They said they rebuilt this file based on the username/password info they had, but it still didn’t work. The web designer (I am not one), also tried to rebuild it without success. He said, probably there is a fix, but he doesn’t have the time (he is no longer a webdesigner). So now I am turning to the virtual universe for help to restore the thousands of hours of writing I did over the past years. I’m hoping someone can please work on this with me.

    Thanks,

    Jordan

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  • Open the wp-config-sample file. Fill in the blanks. DB name, user, password, host, etc. and save it as wp-config.php. If you don’t know how to do that, try what I have in the next paragraph.

    Is your DB accessible thru your website interface? If so, all the information is there. You can also try this, http://educhalk.org/blog/?p=148

    Thread Starter communichi

    (@communichi)

    Okay, thanks kmessinger, I’ll study this, or share this with someone who may be able to help!

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