site gone

  • Resolved mard

    (@mard)


    13 years, 3 months ago

    When I clicked on my site this morning a form came up for setting up a wordpress blog. I thought this was some kind of mistake so I went ahead and wrote in the name of my site and password which I had to repeat of course. Unthinkingly, I went ahead and logged in and then of course I got a brand new blog. But my original blog is gone to never-never land apparently.

    I’m not sure that my blog version was 3.2, but several days ago, maybe it was a week, I upgraded my blog to the latest wordpress version.

    Would this be related to the Zero-day bug? Any way I could recover my original blog??

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  • Thread Starter mard

    (@mard)

    @esmi: In cPanel when I click on File Manager and select root, I get a message “No records found.” Yet when I log into phpMyAdmin and select the database I will be importing into, I see that all the tables are filled with the old data. Also, when I ftp using https://ftp.mcseavey.org I see all the old files. So, the reason the screen is blank is that “No records are found.”??

    I’m at a loss at this point. Do you have some suggestions?
    Thank you.

    I can help you – Let me know if you still need it.

    Thread Starter mard

    (@mard)

    Yes, I still need help.

    In cPanel when I click on File Manager and select root, I get a message “No records found.”

    Where did you install WordPress within your domain/account?

    Thread Starter mard

    (@mard)

    Well, I’ve been using the automatic upgrade when I’m in https://mcseavey.org/blog/wp-admin/

    But apparently the blog sub-directory is gone.
    The error log says

    Warning: DocumentRoot [/home/mard/public_html] does not exist

    Have you checked this using the cPanel File Manager?

    Thread Starter mard

    (@mard)

    Yes, and the File Manager, when I select root, says “No records found.”

    Thread Starter mard

    (@mard)

    the website, mcseavey.org does exist and you can look at it. It has a link to Blog but there is nothing there now.

    Upload WordPress to a /blog sub-folder

    Thread Starter mard

    (@mard)

    OK, and ignore what’s in my database? I guess I need to look at the step by step tutorial for this. But thanks. That’s probably what I need to do, upload to /blog since nothing is there now.

    and ignore what’s in my database?

    Why? What is in your database?

    Thread Starter mard

    (@mard)

    It looks like all my old stuff is in my database, for example, 2,479 wp_posts records, over 2000 wp_comments records, etc., etc. These are from the tables for mard_wrdp1(31) database.

    What are the values for siteurl and home in the wp-options table? Can you also locate the db_version number in the same table?

    Thread Starter mard

    (@mard)

    siteurl and home in the wp_options table each have the option_value https://mcseavey.org/blog

    db_version has the option_value 18226 and an option_id of 72.

    All the blog_id values seem to be 0.

    Right, that means the database is for WP 3.2.1 and that all of the WordPress files need to be upload the a sub-folder called blog off your main root. You will need to manually create a wp-config.php file (using the wp-config-sample.php file as a template) and enter your database name, db username, db user password and db server.

    Don’t run install.php. If everything is set up correctly, WP should connect to your old database automatically.

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