Title: Suddenly not working – all 404 errors
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Suddenly not working – all 404 errors

 *  Resolved [madwoman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madwoman/)
 * (@madwoman)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suddenly-not-working-all-404-errors/)
 * I was logged in to my newly set up blog and looking at a few things in the admin
   section, walked away for 20 minutes and when I got back and hit save on one of
   the setting pages I got a 404 error.
 * Everything had been fine all morning, but now there s no admin, it just comes
   up with what should have been my main blog page but without the theme, and no
   admin anything.
 * I checked the directories and everything is there best I can tell, how could 
   this suddenly happen? What files should I be looking at or checking to fix this?(
   I can only assume something got hacked but I have no clue, and its a new site
   so I have practically no content and no readers yet that I know of)
 * Thank you in advance

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 *  Thread Starter [madwoman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madwoman/)
 * (@madwoman)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suddenly-not-working-all-404-errors/#post-878672)
 * I just can’t find the problem and not sure where else to look.
    I closed my browser
   and rebooted, tried to get back to my WP admin area but I don;t get a login even
   though all the wp directories appear to be in tact. All I see is a 404 error 
   with post and page remnants, no theme (yes, the theme directory and theme still
   do exist).
 * As a last resort I suppose I could remove WP and start from scratch (ugh!) unless
   anyone has a better idea?
 * Thank you 🙂
 *  [Iva](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supersonicsquirrel/)
 * (@supersonicsquirrel)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suddenly-not-working-all-404-errors/#post-878678)
 * I’d suggest you to delete all the plugins first and see what happens. That’s 
   the first thing I would do in a situation like this.
 *  Thread Starter [madwoman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/madwoman/)
 * (@madwoman)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/suddenly-not-working-all-404-errors/#post-878684)
 * I didn’t have any plugins enabled but thank you anyway SupersonicSquirrel 🙂 
   I took the default 2 that were there and removed them just in case.
 * I did manage to solve the problem though (yeah!)
    I disabled my .htaccess file
   and tried to get to the admin and of course got a standard 404 error page showing
   me the wp-login.php couldn’t be found. Well, since I could see it there in the
   directory I realized that one of the changes I had made in the settings was the
   site url. My WP is in a subdirectory, and I was hoping one of the url options
   would actually allow me to have a link back to my main index page… apparently
   that isn’t possible as I just found out.
 * Anyway, I got into the mysql db and adjusted the setting back to include the 
   subdirectory name that wp is in, and now it all works again. Phew!
 * Thanks!

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