Gibberish on home page

How did the problem occur? It seems to be calling a different file and displaying it instead of a php / html file.

Maybe it will be great if you run us through what you did exactly.

Funny thing is, I didn’t do anything specific to WordPress. The index.php file has the same creation/modification date as other PHP files in the directory, so I don’t believe it has been modified.
The only thing that I did on the server was upgrade to PHP version 5.4.14. Other than that, I haven’t modified the WordPress install or even the page content.
I can access https://breatoastmasters.org/wp-login.php and wp-admin just fine…I can even log in to the admin area, but the problem seems to be with the index.php file, or one of the files that it calls.

Check your wp-config.php file for this line:
define('DB_CHARSET', 'utf8')
If you have something else, set it to utf8.

The Glass theme may finally be experiencing some compatibility issues in your environment.

I can even log in to the admin area

I’m assuming that it appears to log in, then might take you directly to the jibberish. If that’s correct, Log in, then try navigating to breatoastmasters.org/wp-admin/themes.php and see if that puts you in the appearance section. If it does, you might try applying the default WordPress theme to see if that solves the issue.

If it doesn’t, you may have to temporarily rename the Glass theme directory using your ftp client, then try to log back in and see if the default theme takes over.

I think that should quickly tell you if it’s theme related or not.

[edit] – I also just noticed that your readme.html file results in the same problem. Krishna is probably onto it with an encoding issue of some type..

I changed the theme, and that solved the issue. So it seems to be a problem with the glass theme. Thank you all for your help.

You’re welcome.