Title: Website not loading after checking "file detection"
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Website not loading after checking "file detection"

 *  [whitelies](https://wordpress.org/support/users/whitelies/)
 * (@whitelies)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-not-loading-after-checking-file-detection/)
 * How do I revert the setting?
 * My website is not loading now.
 * Please help!
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/better-wp-security/)

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 *  [Handoko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handoko-zhang/)
 * (@handoko-zhang)
 * [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-not-loading-after-checking-file-detection/#post-3741557)
 * There are many ways to do it. Range from very easy to almost impossible, depend
   on what have you done.
 * I suggest you do try to fix your issue. Can you provide more information? What
   was the error message? What features have you enabled that cause this problem?
   Can you login? Can you use File Manager (cPanel) or FTP to access your website?…
 * Revert Setting:
 * 1. The Easiest
    Restore from your backup. Do you have any backups? If no, then
   bad news. If yes, the next question: Do you know how to do it?
 * 2. The Not Very Easy
    These are the things you can try if you can’t login to 
   your website: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-loginphp-7](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp-loginphp-7)
   [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-eror](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/site-eror)
 * 3. The Hard
    If you ever enabled the **Change wp-content** feature, oh what a
   bad news, you need to have database and programming knowledge to fix it. I personally
   not dare to fix such case.
 * 4. Others
    There are many others you can do, but depend on what issue you’re 
   facing, what have you done, and many things …

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 * Last reply from: [Handoko](https://wordpress.org/support/users/handoko-zhang/)
 * Last activity: [13 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/website-not-loading-after-checking-file-detection/#post-3741557)
 * Status: not resolved