Title: Broken site.
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Broken site.

 *  Resolved [Lina.V](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linav/)
 * (@linav)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-2/)
 * I attempted to install the BPS plugin on my site, and promptly got a 500 error
   and the site went down.
 * I panicked and used FTP to delete the plugin and tried to delete any files that
   had been created by the plugin. The site came back up, but whenever I clicked
   on a post I would then get a 404 error.
 * I ran across [this](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-bulletproof-security-wp-login-turned-to-404-after-deleting-htaccess-files-and-deactivaing-plugin)
   issue and tried adding this code
 * _[ Moderator Note: Please post code or markup snippets between backticks or use
   the code button. Or better still – use the [pastebin](http://wordpress.pastebin.com/)]_
 *     ```
       # BEGIN WordPress
       <IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
       RewriteEngine On
       RewriteBase /
       RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
       RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
       RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
       </IfModule>
   
       # END WordPress
       ```
   
 * to my site as a file name .htaccess, that seemed to do the trick at first, but
   then I found a number of small errors on the site.
 * I’m not sure what went wrong, or how to get things back to normal.
    Any help 
   would be appreciated.
 * Thanks!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulletproof-security/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/bulletproof-security/)

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 *  Thread Starter [Lina.V](https://wordpress.org/support/users/linav/)
 * (@linav)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-2/#post-3133365)
 * The .htaccess issue was successfully sorted out with the new file and it turns
   out simply deactivating and then reactivating all my plugins solved the other
   issues.
 * No idea what went wrong with the original BPS install, but it’s seems that my
   subsequent issues were a result of my own panicked actions and not the fault 
   of the plugin.
 * …apologies for the panicked post : (

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/broken-site-2/#post-3133365)
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