Title: Critical – HELP
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Critical – HELP

 *  [breezie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/breezie/)
 * (@breezie)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-help/)
 * While trying to get akismet to work the whole entire blog has gone belly up, 
   so now what do I do to restore this, I tried to repair it via cpanel and I get
   this message when I try and go to the blog now, I am honestly just ready to delete
   the entire blog…
 * Warning: main(/home/breezie/public_html/ffblog/wp-includes/wp-db.php): failed
   to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/breezie/public_html/ffblog/
   wp-settings.php on line 100
 * Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required ‘/home/breezie/public_html/ffblog/
   wp-includes/wp-db.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php’) in /
   home/breezie/public_html/ffblog/wp-settings.php on line 100
 * **************************************************
 * so it seems my wp-settings.php has vanished and yet I deleted nothing ?

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 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-help/#post-566239)
 * No, the error message says the wp-settings.php cannot find the /wp-includes/wp-
   db.php file.
 * What exactly did you do when “trying to get akismet to work”?
    There isn’t much
   to do: a) activate b) insert the API key Done.
 *  Thread Starter [breezie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/breezie/)
 * (@breezie)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-help/#post-566240)
 * Thats what I did, when I shut the computer off last night, everything was fine
   and when I went to login this morning the entire thing was gone and all I get
   now is that message, I am soooo frustrated right now I could cry.
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-help/#post-566242)
 * Did you try re-uploading the wp-db.php file? or the whole wp-includes directory?
 *  Thread Starter [breezie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/breezie/)
 * (@breezie)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-help/#post-566243)
 * where do I find it ?
 *  [moshu](https://wordpress.org/support/users/moshu/)
 * (@moshu)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-help/#post-566244)
 * Hmmm… don’t you have a copy of the WordPress files and directories on your computer?
   If you don’t, download the version you have and upload the file or the directory.
   
   Older versions are here: [http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/](http://wordpress.org/download/release-archive/)
 *  Thread Starter [breezie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/breezie/)
 * (@breezie)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-help/#post-566245)
 * thx for your help, but when I set this up I had all sorts of people on my site
   telling me they would help, and its funny how it works because when I always 
   need the help no one is every around and this is just way past my knowledge level
   and to frustrating for me to try and figure out, I am just going to delete the
   blog.

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 * In: [Installing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/installation/)
 * 6 replies
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 * Last reply from: [breezie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/breezie/)
 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/critical-help/#post-566245)
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