zardiw

Apparenly a virus/hack could be responsible for this:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/htaccess-file-corrupted/page/2/#post-15280570

z

I AM the host……lol

z

Found the answer here….WordPress on my site was hacked apparently….no idea how, but here’s the solution……scroll down to my post there:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/htaccess-file-corrupted/page/2/#post-15280570

z

Summary of Solution:

Do what Paul did:

On mine, only index.php in the root had bad crap in it….edited it out.
The about.php in wp-admin was ok.
There should be no about.php in the root….deleted that.
You can always get a clean copy of worpress and compare the files in that with the ones on your site.

paulburada

Hi all,
I had the same issue and I have solved by rewriting the .htcaccess from root with the default values , removed .htcaccess file from wp-admin.
Don’t reload any admin page yet !!!
Remove about.php file from root and WP-Admin, this page infected!
Open index.php from root and index.php from wp-admin and remove the code injected, you will see it very easy which is wrong code.

Cheers!

Also, do what fleeting glimpse did above……I only added the first 2
This denies anybody but you from accessing the WP login/admin:

You can get your IP from: https://WhatsMyIp.org.

If your IP changes, you can use a range also:
164.50.0.0/16 will cover all the IP’s that start with 164.50 …..

added to my .htaccess

<Files wp-login.php>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All

Allow From (ip ranges I use)

</Files>

<Files wp-admin$>
Order Deny,Allow
Deny from All

Allow From (ip ranges I use)

</Files>

Also, I noticed a Patior and Vim files and folders and deleted those. Anybody know what those are?

z

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by zardiw.

How do you prevent this from happening again?

How do they get into our sites?…..My passwords are unhackable….fwiw

z

And it’s counter intutive to the max…..lol…..

Also, new responses to posts don’t filter to the top

And the site still loads, but am unable to edit it in WP.

Because all my custom code in .htaccess is going bye bye ….and this happens FAST after I upload one.

Well, I guess the gutenberg editor is installed by default…….I downloaded and activated the Classic Editor, and now everything is working.

Btw, this all started with a FORBIDDEN error …. and that happened after I was trying to update a page……that went into eternal spinning….lol….after I went back to the Dashboard, all hell had broken loose.

Anyway, I didn’t like the gutenberg/default editor anyway…..it would never keep my default font size……and if I pasted pre written text into the page, it created a freaking block for every sentence….lol

And every time you hit return, it created a new block…….sigh

Now I gotta go back and fix all the permissions……cause I made a bunch of them 777…..spent an hour on that forbidden crap. Finally deleted the .htaccess file.

z

• This reply was modified 3 years, 2 months ago by zardiw.

I’m in favor of going back to Worpress v4……that at least worked.

z

What if you’re not using the Gutenberg editor?….

The solution is to Re-Install Windows apparently…….lol

z

Be nice to see the solution……..

And in a way it IS a wordpress question……since when you add custom html to a page, you need to know what the file paths are. Apparently a file in custom html is based on the web root/html folder….good to know.

z

Never mind…….apparently that DOES work…..