• Resolved jknightplandesign

    (@jknightplandesign)


    I have no idea what happened. Based on page counts, on October 7th my website shut off – I hadn’t checked on it in a few weeks obviously (maintaining it is not a huge part of my day-to-day work as a full-time student). As far as I know, I’m not in the middle of a billing cycle or anything and don’t think a payment bounced or something stupid like that. I was never notified of anything like that, at least. No access to WP-Admin and Dashboard has a red caution sign next to the site with a “This site cannot be accessed” message when clicked. Any ideas? It is hosted through BlueHost. I had JetPack installed ….. nothing else worth mentioning probably. It was a pretty standard, low maintenance site. Nothing fancy.

    URL: jknightplandesign.com

    Cheers,
    Jonathan

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    I see an error 500 there.

    Internal server errors (error 500) are often caused by plugin or theme function conflicts, so if you have access to your admin panel, try deactivating all plugins. If you don’t have access to your admin panel, try manually resetting your plugins (no Dashboard access required). If that resolves the issue, reactivate each one individually until you find the cause.

    If that does not resolve the issue, try switching to the Twenty Fourteen theme to rule-out a theme-specific issue. If you don’t have access to your admin panel, access your server via FTP or SFTP, navigate to /wp-content/themes/ and rename the directory of your currently active theme. This will force the default theme to activate and hopefully rule-out a theme-specific issue.

    If that does not resolve the issue, it’s possible that a .htaccess rule could be the source of the problem. To check for this, access your server via FTP or SFTP and rename the .htaccess file. If you can’t find a .htaccess file, make sure that you have set your FTP or SFTP client to view invisible files.

    If you weren’t able to resolve the issue by either resetting your plugins and theme or renaming your .htaccess file, we may be able to help, but we’ll need a more detailed error message. Internal server errors are usually described in more detail in the server error log. If you have access to your server error log, generate the error again, note the date and time, then immediately check your server error log for any errors that occurred during that time period. If you don’t have access to your server error log, ask your hosting provider to look for you.

    Thread Starter jknightplandesign

    (@jknightplandesign)

    Thanks for the reply, James.

    As far as I can tell I do not have admin panel access (“WP Admin” right?). Clicking on WP Admin sends me to a similar Server error 500 page. The first time I tried to manually reset my plugins (Configure > Plugins?), it gave me an error message (I didn’t think to read it) but now when I go to plugins it just infinitely tries to load them (the icons kind of fade in and out … probably a load visual cue).

    When I go to Personalize > Themes, it says “sorry, no themes found.” That seems ….bad…and weird.
    I stopped there…thinking that was probably the issue? And if so, what the heck?!?

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    WordPress don’t have “Configure > Plugins” or “Personalize > Themes”

    Where are you finding those, and did you try the rest of what’s listed above (particularly the reset steps which *don’t* require Dashboard access)?

    Thread Starter jknightplandesign

    (@jknightplandesign)

    Sorry … I have never had to do any sort of maintenance to my site. Apologies for not knowing exactly what you were referring to. Next time, I could do without the sass, though.

    I just connected to my site via FTP and the entire thing appears to be empty. The ****?!?! All I have is a ‘/’ folder with nothing in it. Is that even possible?

    Thread Starter jknightplandesign

    (@jknightplandesign)

    I went to Bluehost and under WordPress tools it came up with “/public_html/ is outdated. I did a backup based on a recent date and all seems okay again. Resolved.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Excellent, glad you found a fix. No “sass” was intended.

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