“Sorry, not found….” error message appears suddenly

  • blovitt

    (@blovitt)


    16 years, 4 months ago

    I have just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, but I’ve had this problem for a couple of weeks. My entire homepage has suddenly disappeared even though I had not made changes for weeks. My site is self-hosted on http://www.benjilovitt.com and the homepage is showing this error:
    “Not Found
    Sorry, but you are looking for something that isn’t here.”
    Here’s all the relevant information
    • It isn’t the theme for sure – all the other pages are working.
    • Here is the crux of it: I created a new page to act as the home page which displayed everything correctly. But the moment I define the new page as “home” in Settings-Reading Settings-Front Page Displays, the homepage displays the error message and the code isn’t appearing in the source code.
    • Sometimes I will paste the text and the widget on my homepage and it will show the text, but not the widget
    • Lately, when I paste the code for the widget, and click save, it disappears. Same happens when I switch to HTML mode and back. Any idea why?
    <iframe width=”445″ height=”378″ scrolling=”no” frameborder=”0″ src=”http://www.goodwidgets.com/widgets/view_wordpress/45488 “> </iframe>
    • When I edited the original homepage, the preview worked perfectly, but when I clicked save, the changes didn’t take effect.
    • For the record, this is a page, not a post. It isn’t supposed to change.

    Please let me know how to fix it – it was working perfectly and just disappeared without me touching the code.

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  • Robert S

    (@rschilt)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    @blovitt,

    A stab in the dark here…

    You probably need to create a template (eg: home.php) and associate it with the new page you are creating via template drop down in edit page panel.

    R

    Jami Gibbs

    (@jami0821)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Quick question: Do you have any actual blog posts on this website or is it just a landing page?

    If you have blog posts somewhere in there, can you see what happens when you change the Reading Settings to this:

    Settings > Reading > “Your Latest Post”

    Jami Gibbs

    (@jami0821)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    My other thought is that when you name that custom landing page “home” and are designating that page in front page display, it’s not playing nice with WP for some reason. Perhaps naming it something less general like “Featured” and then choosing that in the drop-down list of Front Page choices.

    Thread Starter blovitt

    (@blovitt)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    Ok, we seem to have fixed it…or created a workaround. My designer found that some crazy long string of text suddenly appeared in the design files. Whatever we define as the homepage simply will not work for some reason so she hardcoded the homepage design text (forgive me for the incorrect lingo) into the index.php page and created a separate page which appears when you click “home”. Don’t know why this is happening but it’s functional now. Thank you both for your help.

    Jami Gibbs

    (@jami0821)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    If a crazy long string of text “suddenly” appeared in your theme (especially the index.php), then I would suggest you do 3 things:

    1. Change your passwords pronto! Change your WordPress password and also your server password (your designer should know how to do this).

    2. Log into your server files and sort your files by date. Check for any malicious or strange looking things that might float to the top of the list. Again, your designer should know how to do this.

    3. Re-upload the index.php file via FTP to your server directly.

    I’m really glad your site is working in the interim though!

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    16 years, 4 months ago

    yeah….if you had a crazy long string of text appear in one file, I would suggest you scan through any other files that end in .php

    It may be a hack, and you may have a lot of things that need remedied asap.

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