I did what Antistandard suggested and got my site back up (says I’m running 2.9.2 even though I’m using those two files from 2.9.1.
Specifically, I did:
4. ….. I manually download wp 2.9.1 and copy across the files : wp-setings.php and vars.php to my site that is down.
5. Now it is back up and running again. So I recommend just trying this first before you backup databases, content folders etc.
Thanks,
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