Deleted unknown FTP files

  • westmorelandphotography

    (@westmorelandphotography)


    11 years, 4 months ago

    Hello,

    I’ve helped a friend on-and-off to build her new WordPress site. Yesterday, she deleted an old site and in the process, it looks like she deleted some, but not all (or even most) of the ftp files for her new site.

    Here is her site: http://www.signaturesweetsbyamanda.com/

    She gets this error message when trying to load her site:
    “Index of /

    error_log
    favicon.ico
    readme.html
    site3/
    ssv3_directory.php
    wordpress/
    wp-admin/
    wp-content/
    wp-includes/
    Apache Server at http://www.signaturesweetsbyamanda.com Port 80″

    I know that this means she’s missing an index.php file. Is there any way to find out what other files she might have deleted or to restore her site using the remaining ftp files?

    Thanks!

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  • Bill

    (@chubbycrow)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    I would contact her hosting provider asap and have them help to secure the site. At the same time you/she can inquire about the existence of a site backup that can be put to good use.

    Shawn Hooper

    (@shooper)

    11 years, 4 months ago

    You’re correct that index.php is missing, but I suspect there is also more than that. For example, I don’t see wp-config.php would has the settings to connect to the database.

    Also, what is the wordpress/ directory?

    Agreed with Bill, your first call should be to the web host to see if they have a backup available. If they don’t, I would go download the latest version of WordPress here:

    https://ww.wp.xz.cn/latest.tar.gz

    and figure out what’s missing. A new wp-config.php file will definitely be required – so I hope you know the mysql credentials for the site.

    Good luck.

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    11 years, 4 months ago

    The wp-config.php could be another folder up, but it LOOKS like someone accidentally turfed files, or tried to move everything to the wordpress folder.

    THAT SAID.

    Open the error log.

    1422552892: /home2/signatx5/public_html/ssv3_payload_extractor-jmiwnMfoV4.php startup
1422553455: /home2/signatx5/public_html/ssv3_removal_payload-4rcGoiLRmj.php startup

    That would be a hack.

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