Title: Major Error, cannot access admin Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # Major Error, cannot access admin * Resolved [lifeofahappymom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifeofahappymom/) * (@lifeofahappymom) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-error-cannot-access-admin/) * A few days ago, I made a major mistake. I tried to update the version of WordPress without backing up my blog. I had often backed up before, and nothing had happened. Well, this time I didn’t, and I got some weird error message telling me to contact the admin (me, of course). I get them occasionally on both of the blogs I run, and all I ever did was hit the back arrow and try again. * Well, this time, it told me that the site was down for maintenance and to check back in a few minutes. This was strange, because I hadn’t done any such thing. After trying for several minutes to access something, I gave up and went to the kitchen for a while. When I came back (15 minutes or an hour later, I don’t remember how long), I got this: * Warning: require(/home/lifeofahappymom/mybabyhaseczema.com/wp-includes/class- wp.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/lifeofahappymom/mybabyhaseczema.com/wp-settings.php on line 70 * Fatal error: require() [function.require]: Failed opening required ‘/home/lifeofahappymom/ mybabyhaseczema.com/wp-includes/class-wp.php’ (include_path=’.:/usr/local/lib/ php:/usr/local/php5/lib/pear’) in /home/lifeofahappymom/mybabyhaseczema.com/wp- settings.php on line 70 * No matter what url I put in, this is what I get. I mean, whether it’s my domain, [http://mybabyhaseczema.com](http://mybabyhaseczema.com), or the wp-admin page, or what, I get this message. * I’m in the process of copying the all the files from the domain to a folder on my desktop, so whatever I do to try to fix the problem, I won’t make it worse. I have the feeling that all my posts are somewhere in those files, and that if I could just find them, I could install a clean version of wordpress (manually, obviously), and copy those files into place, and voila, I’ll be back in business. But maybe that’s not possible. My other gut feeling is that one corrupted file is responsible for the problem, and that if I could replace that one file, everything would go back to normal. But which of the fifty-billion files is it? That I have no clue! * I’m not exactly sure which version of WordPress I was attempting to update from. It might be the one before the current version; it might be two or three versions ago. I haven’t been blogging much lately, so I haven’t been keeping on top of it. * Anyone have any ideas I can try? Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) * (@esmi) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-error-cannot-access-admin/#post-2211469) * Try: – switching to the Twenty Eleven theme by renaming your current theme’s folder in wp-content/themes using [FTP](http://codex.wordpress.org/FTP_Clients) or whatever file management application your host provides. * – [resetting the plugins folder](http://codex.wordpress.org/FAQ_Troubleshooting#How_to_deactivate_all_plugins_when_not_able_to_access_the_administrative_menus.3F) by FTP or phpMyAdmin. * – re-uploading all files & folders – **except** the wp-content folder – from a **fresh** download of WordPress. * – re-running the upgrade manually using wp-admin/upgrade.php. * Thread Starter [lifeofahappymom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifeofahappymom/) * (@lifeofahappymom) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-error-cannot-access-admin/#post-2211478) * First one didn’t work. * Second one didn’t work–I got stuck on the “login to you WP admin” part–I can’t access the admin! * Fourth idea didn’t work either–still get the same error message. * So I’m going to try the third one later. Sure, it will only take 10-15 minutes for me, but I need to make lunch right now. Will try after lunch. Stay tuned… * Thread Starter [lifeofahappymom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifeofahappymom/) * (@lifeofahappymom) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-error-cannot-access-admin/#post-2211563) * Third one worked like a charm! It’s all there! Thank you so much!!!! * Thread Starter [lifeofahappymom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifeofahappymom/) * (@lifeofahappymom) * [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-error-cannot-access-admin/#post-2211565) * Seems that the wp-stats-dashboard plugin (not the wordpress.com stats plugin that everyone uses) caused the same problem to occur, though not as serious. Not sure why the original one happened. I keep getting internal server error messages (500 as opposed to 404). Maybe I should contact my domain hosting service, because it started happening on my other blogs hosted by them (with different url’s). Anyhow, I’m satisfied. 🙂 Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Major Error, cannot access admin’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [upgrade](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/upgrade/) * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [lifeofahappymom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lifeofahappymom/) * Last activity: [14 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/major-error-cannot-access-admin/#post-2211565) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics