farrelldoc

Oh, and by the way, now that I know what caused the problem, I definitely will use this plugin again. I love this plugin and have it on all of my WP sites. I’m glad to know that I can continue using it! (But just to be on the safe side, I think I’ll make a manual backup first before I try it again on this 3.1.3 site…)

😉

Thank you for everything. They did help, and the site is back where it was before it blew up.

http://www.bonneytexas.gov

It was a rouge .htaccess file in my home directory (above public_html). They renamed it. I didn’t even look there. I have no idea how that happened just by making a backup, but you can be sure that I won’t try that again with this plugin on 3.1.3! 🙂

I had already removed everything and reinstalled a fresh copy of WP, so I put everything back per your instructions, and it’s all good now. Thanks!

Rouge .htaccess file contents…

Order allow,deny
deny from all

… just like you suspected, but in a different place.

I’m going to spend today making progress getting some of the rest of the content and up and trying to finish the site. I was about to install a couple of new plugins when I tried to make a backup first–just in case a plugin caused a problem… lol 🙂

Have a great Memorial Day if you are in the US–and a great week if you aren’t! Thanks again for all the help–I learned a lot and got a lot of comfort from you being with me through that ordeal!

Wow! Thanks so much! I will try this now. I’ve never installed WP that way–I’ve always used Fantastico, but I’ll give it a shot. I assume that I’m supposed to leave the DB where it is but make a backup of it? Do I use Replace, Update or Insert when I save it? I would assume Replace.

Thanks again!

I ran a check in cPanel:

Checking Database
bonney_wrdp1 is now being checked.
bonney_wrdp1.wp_commentmeta OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_comments OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_links OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_options OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_postmeta OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_posts OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_term_relationships OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_term_taxonomy OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_terms OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_usermeta OK bonney_wrdp1.wp_users OK
Check Complete

Sorry, I forgot to respond to that question…

Yes, that is the first thing that I checked. There is nothing there but what I put in it right at first when it was still working (the rewrite rules for URLs):

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

Thanks!

Thank you for your responses.

I looked, but it is not there. I think it did come out of maintenance mode, but something else happened at the same time.

I have considered making a copy of my images and whatever else I can (not that much that I can) via FTP and then uninstalling WP from cPanel (Fantastico). If I did this and it’s a permission problem, do you think that it would work, or would the file system “remember” the bad permissions? (I’ve experienced this before if I remember correctly.)

I’d rather not have to go through this and re-set up all my theme settings again. It’s a complex theme, and I didn’t get a chance to export the settings before the site blew up–I was, after all, trying to make a back up when it happened… 🙂

Thanks for all of y’alls help! I really appreciate it! I hope I can get this fixed without starting over from scratch, but if I do, I want that to work!

I did put it in maintenance mode during the backup (or told backwpup to). I haven’t done that on any other sites–that was the only thing I did differently.

The verbose output said that it put it back in production mode when the backup finished. However, no backup was created when I navigated to where it was supposed to be via FTP.

Thanks for your help.