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Hi @wfdave

Appreciate your response.

I am at a loss in locating the my.ini file.

cpanel does not show anything in the database area other than mysql databases and wizard, remote MySQL, Postgresql databases, Postgresql databases wizard, and PHPMyAdmin. Have tried opening the other links in the database area but no help.

Do I need to contact ISP for assistance?

Regards

Ken

Just included the PID info in the tags setting here

OK, editorial control, aka my wife, is happy with slider in centre of page, so the question lapses.
Thank you for your interest and suggestions.
Regards

Hi kbatdorf,

Thank you for your response.

Yes, I am reasonably sure it will work that way but what I was hoping for was a coding such as <align=”alignright”> to move it across the page, not in the sidebar.
– but align does not work in this instance.

I was also hoping to be able to wrap text like I can with images.

I will check back with the theme author to see if there is a way, from his perspective.

Regards

Hello Steve, managed to get wordfence installed, malware found and appropriately dealt with.
I have other problems arising with control in my hands.
Thank you for your response.

Oh, and change the .htaccess back to vanilla…

OK, let’s shorten the enquiry.
What steps do I need to take to close a multisite without losing the dbase data.

I have a backup of the dbase, and it seems I need to

a. remove the virtual sites within wp-admin
b. the remove the reference to multisite in wp-config
c. create a new database
d. create same name subdomains
e. Install wordpress
f. the part I want to avoid – copy and paste the posts – some hundreds of them.

I feel I need to re-state the problem, along with some new information.

I have a multi-site that I can only access the main site, of.
When I go to the Network Admin/Sites I can see all the subdomain sites but
if I click on “edit” I get a warning of an unsafe site.

If I click through the warrning I see just 4 lines:
Index of /

Name Last modified Size Description
404.shtml 2017-09-25 13:12 251
cgi-bin/ 2017-11-04 18:13 –
phpinfo.php 2017-09-25 13:12 21
robots.txt 2017-09-25 13:12 31

Same 4 line display applies when I click “view”

If I copy the site url in the site listing I get a page that makes sense
ie:
https://sweetblogspot.com/wp-admin/network/site-settings.php?id=17

This page is connected to the database, because when I changed the http to https in all the listings on the page, these changes were mirrored in the phpMyAdmin database.

I cannot work out why this subdomain does not display correctly. It seems completely unavailable
URL: nichemarketingreviews.sweetblogspot.com

Looking at the dbase post area, on selecting a post I see the “guid” listing of the post as http, and maybe I need to change this to https – be nice if there was some way to do such a change globally.

I would be most grateful for guidance here.

Site history:
Main site hacked, and since, repaired.
Site recently moved to new hosting.
Subdomain access problem was evident when on old hosting, and has not improved with the new hosting.

Plugins have been cleared of unwanted and bad, wordfence installed on main site.

Hi Ipstenu
I agree it is most likely not a flaw with multi-site.
I did a backup (home dir and dbase) from last year (before the rats arrived). Still can’t get anything to show in the multi-site area.
The database has the post information but somehow the connection between post and database is not happening and I get a warning with the https crossed out in the url

Puzzled.

I have recently moved this site to new hosting and am getting emails regarding the renewal of the auto SSL certificate in Jan 2018.
I will ask new hosting about this “unsecure site” issue. I can see the security certificae applying to the main site, but unsure re multi-sites being covered.

Hi everyone. I got a bit braver than usual and clicked through to the page linked.
Guess what – all gone….

all I have there is:

Name Last modified Size Description
404.shtml 2017-09-25 13:12 251
cgi-bin/ 2017-11-04 18:13 –
phpinfo.php 2017-09-25 13:12 21
robots.txt 2017-09-25 13:12 31

Shall check the others, but I suspect the hackers had a lot of fun wrecking this large site.
If that is the case then I will need remove the multi-sites and rebuild.

Sigh

Can wfyann (@wfyann) let us know which plugin was being disabled?

This level of information would be very helpful, as wordfence gives the option of ignoring the warning, and if we know what not to use then we should be able to continue using wp-spamshield with confidence.
It would appear that the action to remove might have been a bit autocratic, mayhaps – see the link in post by stefaanvandamme (@stefaanvandamme)

Apologies if help could not access site – just moved the site and nameservers have now caught up.
Again – my apologies.

Hello Steve, thank you for your response.
The certificate for the base site is fine, it is just that when I open any one of the multisite virtual sites I am firstly shown a page with a warning including a problem with the CA certificate ( the certificate can be viewed at this point), and pressing on, the site is redirected to a university facility “abhisamsoftware.com”.

I have trawled through cpanel and cannot find any reference to CA certificate other than that from cpanel.
I have checked thru the database and cannot find anything that might have a redirect attached.

Any suggestions?

Hi a2hostingrj
The codex describes the multisite setup as virtual site – https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Create_A_Network

In particular:
A multisite network is a collection of sites that all share the same WordPress installation. They can also share plugins and themes. The individual sites in the network are virtual sites in the sense that they do not have their own directories on your server, although they do have separate directories for media uploads within the shared installation, and they do have separate tables in the database.

So, what I need do is create a fresh topic and try and focus the helpers on the multisite issue.
Thank you for your help.

The voyage of discovery continues.
Pioneer Web Design reported a redirect back to sweetblogspot – I could only achieve that with a change of network on this machine.
OK, I just now went thru all browsers and also win10 (control panel/network and internet/internet properties
I cleared all settings.
Now when I insert the multisite url I get redirected to sweetblogspot.
Well, it is an improvement, but need to find what is causing the redirect.
subdomains redirect is listed as *.sweetblogspot.com

I thought multisite created virtual subdomains, not actual. So where to from here?
Perhaps I need to start another topic.