site and admin now 404 after backup via ftp

  • Version: I think it’s 3.9.1 – if there is a place to view via htp let me know and I’ll check.

    Site was up / admin available yesterday. I’m making some changes so I downloaded entire site via FTP into a new folder on my hard drive. When I went to access today everything [admin / site / pages] is 404. Even though I made NO changes at all to the site. I tried removing the plugins folder and then uploaded the entire site from my backup – still the same. I’m using the Themeforest Abundance theme with Woo commerce.

    I have another wp site on the same server so it’s not that and I checked the sql database and that doesn’t show any changes. Any ideas appreciated.

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  • Moderator t-p

    (@t-p)

    404 indicates failure to communicate with the server.
    – it could be configuration issue
    – it could be memory issue
    – it could be permalinks issue, try reviewing this: How to fix 404 error when using Pretty Permalinks?
    – it could be optimization issue
    – it could be a conflict with plugin: try resetting the plugin folder
    – it could be a conflict with theme: try switching to the default theme for a moment via FTP and see if that resolves the issue.
    – check for .htaccess file presence and check if the default wordpress mod-rewrite code is there or not. There are times when .htaccess file is not writeable or gotten deleted
    – Check the server error log for your hosting account for any specific error message. Ask your webhost for assistance to locate them.

    Thread Starter TBpets

    (@tbpets)

    really – I did not do absolutely anything to the site other than download it and it could be any of these things [some of which i already said I tried]… thanks for sending a template answer – very helpful

    Did you try to use dafult .htaccess for wordpress?

    Can you just put the following codes in your .htaccess file and tell me it helps or not ?

    # BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>
# END WordPress
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