Folders disappeared when disabling Multisite and more problems

  • enriquegarde

    (@enriquegarde)


    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hello,

    I had multisite on my main blog. 3 hours ago I decided to disable it, by deleting first the second blog on the same wp installation and then the necessary line in wp-config.php and restoring the .htaccess

    But… then the /wp-content/uploads folder disappeared, and the main blog is now without images. No, I haven’t got a back-up of this folder, but anyway, my problem is bigger than this.

    If I delete this line:
    define( 'MULTISITE', true );
    on wp-config.php, the wp admin panel shows only the dashboard and my user profile. Anything else, no entries, no comments, no plugins, nothing. I really need to delete this and I need my blog to be again “www”, because when I installed Multisite the “www” disappeared too. I need my blog like it was one week ago, with www and with no multisite options.

    Thank you very much for your help, I’m quite desperate.

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  • Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Look in the database. Is the wp_posits table still there?
    Look in the filesystem. Is wp-content/themes and wp-content/plugins still there? Is there anything in them?

    Does your host do backup restores?
    Did you make any backups before enabling multisite?

    Thread Starter enriquegarde

    (@enriquegarde)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hi Andrea, thanks for answering

    Look in the database. Is the wp_posits table still there?
    It is not. When I saw the disaster I immediately restore the database from the latest auto-backup from the server, so the db is just like yesterday. I don’t know exactly what wp_posits is, but it’s not there…

    Look in the filesystem. Is wp-content/themes and wp-content/plugins still there? Is there anything in them?
    Yes, all of them

    Does your host do backup restores?
    Only of the database, that’s the problem…

    Did you make any backups before enabling multisite?
    Yes, I made a backup of the database, but not of the uploads folder, I never thought this could happen…

    I still trying to disable the multisite function without loosing all the accessible information in the admin, but I can’t…

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    15 years, 7 months ago

    But… then the /wp-content/uploads folder disappeared, and the main blog is now without images. No, I haven’t got a back-up of this folder, but anyway, my problem is bigger than this.

    As a side comment… There is NOTHING inside the WordPress Network-ization that does this. Seriously. It deletes nothing.

    Look in the database. Is the wp_posits table still there?

    She meant wp_posts 🙂 The table with all your posts in it.

    Do you have a backup of your old wp-config.php file, or did you back up NONE of your files?

    Thread Starter enriquegarde

    (@enriquegarde)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hi ipstenu,

    I have a copy of the .htaccess, the database and the wp-config.php file.

    I know nothing inside wordpress deletes folders, but, what can I say… “Uploads” has been deleted

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Okay, copy up your OLD .htaccess and wp-config and your wordpress network stuff will magically go away.

    BTW, HOW did you delete the second site on your network?

    Also: Look for a host that does some sort of file backup.

    Thread Starter enriquegarde

    (@enriquegarde)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hi again, ipstenu

    I found a way to solve the /uploads/ problem (I have a back-up of it). But, when I set up my old htaccess and wp-config, I’m getting the same problem as I had in the first question of this topic. Clearly I’m doing something wrong, but I don’t know what.

    Can I try default htaccess and wp-config values?

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Yeah, but I don’t know what they are for single site anymore. OHOH!

    log off.

    Seriously, log off, delete the cookies, and then log back in.

    Thread Starter enriquegarde

    (@enriquegarde)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    I’m doing it, and seriously, there’s only Dashboard and Profile options in the admin…

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Ugh, that’s just so weird. I’m sorry, I’m out of ideas now 🙁

    Andrea Rennick

    (@andrea_r)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Can I try default htaccess and wp-config values?

    Yes!

    For the default wp-config, the download has wp-config.sample.php

    For the htaccess rules, just go to the permalinks menu.

    For the missing menu items, please go check in the database and look at your administrator role.

    If you were the only user and you didn’t do anything odd to either your username, the other blogs and changing the uploads folder, there’s no way this should happen at all. if you did *anything* different to the install while you were running the network, we need to know,. just in case. 😉

    Thread Starter enriquegarde

    (@enriquegarde)

    15 years, 7 months ago

    Hello Andrea,

    Thanks, I solved it two hours ago editing both files. Thank you for all your support 🙂

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