"Oops, something went wrong"

Hello ,

A friend of mine had a running blog made with this great platform but suddenly(so he says) when he tried to enter it or the admin page the browser indicated the following error: “error establishing a database connection”. As he’s not a tech guy he asked me to help . I’m no expert in wordpress related issues but I know a few things about the web.

After seeing the error I googled a bit and found out that incorrect credentials may be the cause of this so I went off to try to view and edit the wp-config.php file. I got access to the cpanel (the blog is hosted on hostinger) so I can browse the site’s directories. To my surprise I found out that in the root or in the public_html folder there were no wp associated files or folders , no content , no includes , no themes , no nothing. I also used FileZilla with show hidden files flag activated but still no success. I then added the correct credentials to a database.php file found in root/config and now when I try to access the site it says “Oops , something went wrong”.

The problem is that I can’t debug the problem and don’t know why the wp files are missing. Any suggestions ?

Thank you for your time