Site stopped working, Admin login gives 404 error

  • Melanie

    (@buenosdi)


    12 years ago

    I installed WordPress on my site last week (www.langdonlibrary.com) and was able to log in, upload a new template, modify stuff, and get the site almost completely finalized. The only issue that I ran into was that I used the Facebook Like Box and Twitter widgets from within the available widgets in my theme, which both looked fabulous, and about an hour after installing and setting them up, they completely disappeared. They were no longer on the website — it was just empty white area instead — and when I went into the widgets page they weren’t available as options anymore. I installed a couple of plug-ins to replace them and that seemed to work so I forgot about it.

    When I tried to access the site the next day though, I got this:

    Index of /

    favicon.ico
    Apache Server at https://www.langdonlibrary.com Port 80

    When I then tried to login to my admin account at https://www.langdonlibrary.com/wp-admin/ I got a 404 error saying the page didn’t exist.

    I checked on my hosting account and all of the files are still there. I uninstalled and reinstalled WordPress today but am still having the same issues.

    Any ideas on what happened and how I can fix it? During the time that the site was working to the time that it stopped working, there were no changes at all. I have no idea how something like this can happen.

    thanks,
    Melanie

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  • Check the WordPress files are in the FTP.

    Thread Starter Melanie

    (@buenosdi)

    I just checked and all of the files are in the ftp, but I think WordPress is somehow pointing to the wrong subfolder. The subfolder with all of the files, which is set with my host to be the main folder for this URL is /langdonlibrarytest. This folder contains all of the stuff that I’ve done to the site so far. There is also a folder called /langdonlibrarycom that only has a favicon in it. This seems to be the folder that is being accessed when someone goes to https://www.langdonlibrary.com.

    I checked within all of the server settings for my host and they all are pointing to the correct /langdonlibrarytest folder. I’m not sure how to determine if this is the issue, and if so, where it is set up wrong. Since I can’t access WordPress at all I can’t get in to see if there’s an incorrect setting in there somewhere.

    I think that this problem isn’t in the WordPress. Maybe a wrong server configuration.

    Thread Starter Melanie

    (@buenosdi)

    I just copied and pasted all of the files from the test folder to the com folder and I can at least access the dashboard now, though all of the work I did on it is gone. I guess I’ll keep looking for the server setting to point it back to the right folder and cross my fingers.

    Thanks for the help!

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