html appears instead of wp admin panel

  • Hi,
    site: https://www.sylvieadams.com
    When I’m logged in and using the admin panel of WP, I have an intermittent problem – in clicking on links in the panel (for ex. appearance/theme or posts/all posts) I will get code instead of the linked content in the panel (I have this: https://imgur.com/bz5xbOA instead of the “Manage themes” or list of posts). If I hit the reload icon in my address bar, it will bring me to the proper page. Or sometimes, when I click a link, it will try to load the page but will not succeed and will keep me on the page I was and I have to click again. The problem shows only on the admin panel but it seems to slow down everything. And all my back-ups have shown this problem.

    I have contacted my host which confirm that I don’t have errors logs showing anything suspicious on their end. I have tried with all plug-ins disabled and with the Twenty Twelve theme but the problem remains. I have also re-installed WP v3.5.1 throught the admin panel without success. Before deleting my WP files and uploading throught FTP as suggested by some posts, I would like to confirm:

    1. Does it seems to you to be WP related?
    2. If it is WP related, what would you suggest?
    3. And if I have to delete and upload, which folders should you recommend I try first? Do I change everything except wp-content? Or do I need to change only certain files?

    Thank you

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  • I had a similar problem which was related to a .htaccess file which was in a strange place.

    I had something like this:

    /var/www/website1.com
/var/www/website1.com/.htaccess
/var/www/website1.com
/var/www/website1.com/.htaccess
/var/www/.htaccess

    where website1 and website2 were 2 different WordPress installations.

    This last .htaccess file influenced somehow the both websites.

    Maybe you can check this first.

    If it’s an intermittent problem, more than likely it’s the host dropping out. htaccess rules aren’t going to cause intermittent issues.

    DNS resolves to unifiedlayer.com, which is some sort of hosting reseller. And if you’re still having issues with bare bones twnetytwelve, that also points to the host.

    You can try an manually upload all core WP files and folders, except wp-content and wp-config.php and see if that helps.

    Thread Starter justemoi

    (@justemoi)

    Thanks for the answers. I am with Bluehost, but they have recently put me on Cloudflare, which I had to disable because of conflicts with W3 Total Cache, maybe that explains the DNS redirection. I have totally desinstalled W3 Total Cache from my site.

    I have uploaded the core files and tried the admin panel – seems Ok for now but hard to say as it is intermittent. I would have to use it for a bit to see if the problem is solved. If it’s Ok with you to keep this thread open for a couple of days, I’ll make sure to post the results (whatever they are). Again thanks.

    W3 Total Cache is buggy and writes lots of rules to .htaccess; use WP Super Cache with php caching. And you don’t need cloudflare unless you’re getting thousands of hits a day.

    Thread Starter justemoi

    (@justemoi)

    Well, bad news, the html pages have reappeared. Less frequently than before, but that also happened when I reinstalled WP through the admin panel. For a while, the site was faster, and I only had a few html pages appearing. Then, the more I used the admin panel, the more frequent html pages would appear. So reinstalling WP seemed to have help a bit?

    I contacted Bluehost again, they confirmed that my DNS was correctly set-up, and my IP address was OK and that they could not find anything wrong with my site.

    Other steps taken:
    Checked for malware: none
    Changed name of plugin file: problem still exists
    Installed WP Supercache as per songdogtech suggestion (thanks)

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