Site 404, wp-admin accessible

  • Resolved r3inhout

    (@r3inhout)


    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hello!

    I tried making a backup with Backup Guard before I would do a WP upgrade. Halfway the backup I got an error and I lost all contact with the website.
    As for now I reuploaded the WP files by FTP as prescribed by the codex (manual upgrade). I got the wp-admin page working again and I’m glad to see al my posts/pages/plugins still exist. The big problem now is: the site is still down. Everytime I want to visit it, I get redirected to the 404 page of the hosting company.
    Do you have any idea on how to resolve this?

    Kind regards,
    Reinhout

    edit: when going to http://built-it.xyz, the language plugin still redirects towards the right language (http://built-it.xyz/nl/start) so the site must be running behind the 404. If only I knew where the error comes from.

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  • esmi

    (@esmi)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Try:
    – switching to the default theme automatically by renaming your current theme’s folder inside wp-content/themes and adding “-old” to the end of the folder name using FTP or whatever file management application your host provides.

    – resetting the plugins folder by FTP or phpMyAdmin.

    – re-uploading all files & folders – except the wp-content folder and the wp-config.php & root .htaccess files – from a fresh download of WordPress. Make sure that you delete the old copies of files & folder before uploading the new ones.

    – running the upgrade manually via wp-admin/upgrade.php

    Thread Starter r3inhout

    (@r3inhout)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Hi Esmi!

    Thank you for the suggestion. I found that it’s the Polylang plugin that causes the 404 errors. I’ve never had any problems with that plugin in the past.

    edit:
    The solution for anyone with a plugin that fiddles around with the links (polylang and others). You need to go to settings –> permalinks and change it to the standard option. After that you may reactivate the plugin and change the permalink settings back.

    esmi

    (@esmi)

    9 years, 8 months ago

    Glad to hear that you managed to sort this out. And thanks for posting a solution. This may well help many other Polylang users. 🙂

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