Update old security keys

Now my site seems to be hosed by this. The above code is displaying on the front end of the site and the dashboard is down completely. I tried to restore from a backup from a week ago and the problem persists. Please help soon!

Thank you,

I had to do a full site restore. This experience makes me hesitant to use this plugin at all.

I am really worried that it is going to take my site down again. I guess I would rather leave it alone rather than take that risk.

I encountered this same problem again, this time I didn’t make any changes in Defender, the salt was just added automatically to the WP-config which caused it to print on screen. I was able to remove it with no further problems. Here is the content of that file:

/* DEFENDER GENERATED SALTS */
define('AUTH_KEY',         '?%:7I(B*?k!:qJCC;-L2vF-Rza@R5oNY7hjTZq

cM-7+|.%XH]L-)VY!1fsl,kCx’);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_KEY’, ‘E`RF*RZRW@h_N8S8G-.?R<2ZW<.,t7VTQWeB&FEuJPk6C[A|cnv5$KMlv!<G,9D(‘);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_KEY’, ‘L],QLTX~wWx$;+?x:<!^#b4,0vxcD#?mwS|3Qij/(M-9mM$/c)_G3fY3Q;vfw]&q’);
define(‘NONCE_KEY’, ‘s#Tp#}|D_ar^$VMjAy?1%6}Yh+BD-YS?noZp)8g35()YKd^9$VuJFJX{~pr1|[&@’);
define(‘AUTH_SALT’, ‘$^_*JA7$v>Fsh=dYPI7$Iwz8V9AuY?%#g:)lSOD;HF fCm|vg& /n_mfb#g%}$4+’);
define(‘SECURE_AUTH_SALT’, ‘I7y4,*sMwL=<ubaPMz+~2-lD)XXby0AxA} ?0K&FjeZ2^,o oQ<!5V(C:7.J 5OH’);
define(‘LOGGED_IN_SALT’, ‘8afobMK)G%R~5Jo1C>QyT@V{](oz&9qcZ@upTtyH!fIj-()SQ?F7lEA]?$+nt]‘);
define(‘NONCE_SALT’, ‘&FG=p~=uhbv-ep3KZ:fM]6 . 9; ud9|/<mI[8hXj+ygnYqXP4`nb;./7O;2b|_,’);

<?php
/** Enable W3 Total Cache */
define(‘WP_CACHE’, true); // Added by W3 Total Cache

/** Enable W3 Total Cache Edge Mode */
define(‘W3TC_EDGE_MODE’, true); // Added by W3 Total Cache

/** WordPress’s config file **/
/** http://wordpress.org/ **/
// ** MySQL settings ** //
//Added by WP-Cache Manager
define(‘DB_NAME’, “*******”);
// The name of the database
define(‘DB_USER’, “*******”);
// Your MySQL username
define(‘DB_PASSWORD’, “**********”);
// …and password
define(‘DB_HOST’, “mysql.seawingdesigns.com:3306″);
// …and the server MySQL is running on
// Change the prefix if you want to have multiple blogs in a single database.
$table_prefix = ‘wp_2sw142_’;

define( ‘DISALLOW_FILE_EDIT’, true );
// example: ‘wp_’ or ‘b2’ or ‘mylogin_’
// Turning off Post Revisions. Comment this line out if you would like them to be on.
define(‘WP_POST_REVISIONS’, false);
// Change this to localize WordPress. A corresponding MO file for the
// chosen language must be installed to wp-includes/languages.
// For example, install de.mo to wp-includes/languages and set WPLANG to ‘de’
// to enable German language support.
define(‘WPLANG’, ”);
/* Stop editing */
$server = DB_HOST;
$loginsql = DB_USER;
$passsql = DB_PASSWORD;
$base = DB_NAME;
define(‘ABSPATH’, dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/’);
// Get everything else
require_once ABSPATH . ‘wp-settings.php’;`