Theme disappeared

  • Yvan

    (@yvan)


    20 years, 8 months ago

    Please help a desperate newbie!

    I just installed WordPress with the journanlizedSand theme and was elated by the result, then it happened!

    When I make a change and save the new setting, I always check to see how the site looks like after the change. For a reason I don’t understand instead of showing the changed blog suddenly I landed on a list of the directories. When I clicked on index.html I could still see the blog with its theme. Now even doing this lands me to the content of the blog with no theme whatsoever. Just the text.

    What did I do wrong and how can I fix the problem?

    Any help highly appreciated

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  • Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    index.html? WordPress does not use *.html files.

    Are you missing the index.php for your blog’s root directory? This would be the index.php that comes with the WordPress installation (and not the theme).

    Thread Starter Yvan

    (@yvan)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Sorry I meant Index.php. Not yet used to Php…
    Index.php does exist and when I click on it from the directory list I land on the text of the blog with no formatting except different fonts but no theme.

    I’m talking about the index that shows on:
    http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/index.php

    Where do I find the one you mention from WordPress installation?

    Thanks for your help.

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    “I’m talking about the index that shows on:
    http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/index.php

    Where do I find the one you mention from WordPress installation?“

    That would be one and the same.

    Have you tried switching back to the default or classic theme? It’s possible the copy of Journalized Sand you installed is corrupted or missing one or more files.

    Thread Starter Yvan

    (@yvan)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    I will try, but I’m not even sure how to login now!

    When I click on wp-config-sample.php I get a message that says:

    “Error establishing a database connection

    This either means that the username and password information in your wp-config.php file is incorrect or we can’t contact the database server at localhost.”

    There does not seem to be a problem with the host. I went in Cpanel my SQL and tried a repair of the WP database. Eveything seems Ok there.

    Kafkaesqui

    (@kafkaesqui)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    wp-config-sample.php is the “template” for wp-config.php, which is not a file used for logging in and such, but just for configuring your such stuff as your MySQL information.

    wp-login.php is the file you want to access/log in to your account through.

    Thread Starter Yvan

    (@yvan)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    When I give as url http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/wp-login.php
    It returns to the directory list: http://www.mywebsite.com/blog/wp-admin/ without login in…

    I tried to change the theme back to wp clasic to no avail. Something seems seriously screwed up.

    I will probably reinstall the whole wp with the theme.

    Is there a way to reuse the few hours spend customizing without recreating the same problem? WP says that I have to clear the whole database in order to reinstall. I can save the files and copy and paste here and there, but there must be a better way. Any idea?

    Thanks again for your help.

    tomhanna

    (@tomhanna)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Before totally reinstalling do 2 things. First, instead of giving “mywebsite.com” give us a real link to your blog and maybe someone will recognize your problem. Be prepared to give a little time for people to check it out.

    Second, try a fresh upload of all the files that you haven’t customized including the default and classic Themes.

    And actually a couple of other things before you totally give up, if the above doesn’t help. Shut off your firewall, clear your browser cache and cookies, shut down your browser completely and restart it. Then try your site again.

    Thread Starter Yvan

    (@yvan)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Thanks a lot for this new help 🙂

    I did clear cache, cookies etc but still get the same result.

    I also tried MS Explorer instead of Mozilla. Same thing.

    If you want to have a look try:
    http://www.wellnessmaster.com/blog/index.php

    It seems to just show a few test posts that I entered, but all the rest images, theme etc is gone…

    I also would like to know how to delete parts of the archive that does not make sense. I suppose left over from the sample…

    Any idea is welcome!

    moshu

    (@moshu)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    1. Your server doesn’t recognize index.php as a valid index.
    2. I think in your Options > General in the URI fields you put something like:
    http://www.wellnessmaster.com/blog/index.html – at least your index file is looking for the stylesheet at this adress.

    If you cannot login, you’ll have to go into the mysql database and change the siteurl and home values in options table.
    See the tutorial:
    http://www.tamba2.org.uk/wordpress/site-url/

    jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Now, it appears that the blog is looking for its stylesheet here:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="http://www.wellnessmaster.com/blog/index.php/wp-content/themes/journalizedsand/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

    Boris, in your Options area of WP (can you login at all?), you don’t declare index.php, just the path, http://wellnessmaster.com/blog/

    Maybe this would help?

    And I don’t believe all your files are gone, your blog is just having trouble finding them. Before I ran off and deleted anything and started over, I’d take a few deep breaths (remember the message of your blog), and wait a while and see if someone here can’t get you back up and running.

    Joni

    Thread Starter Yvan

    (@yvan)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    Right on!

    Somehow I did screw up with the siteurl and finally could restore it to a valid value. Now it works beautifully 🙂

    Have a look at http://www.wellnessmaster.com/blog/index.html. Doesn’t it look better!

    Thanks a lot. I hope I did not exhaust the whole team of WP supporters. Anyway it’s great to find such a helping hand when you start and have everything to learn!

    jonimueller

    (@jonimueller)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    I think your url is

    http://wellnessmaster.com/blog

    You shouldn’t have to hard code it to

    http://wellnessmaster.com/blog/index.php

    What you SHOULD do is delete (or rename to index.html.hide) the index.html file. Servers look for that file before they look for index.php, so if they do find index.html, they’ll display that (or in your case the directory listing), ignoring altogether the index.php file.

    Joni 😉

    Thread Starter Yvan

    (@yvan)

    20 years, 8 months ago

    hi Joni,

    You’re absolutely right http://wellnessmaster.com/blog is what works.

    Thanks for the tip on .html I will delete it.

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