MarynaSmuts

Thanks, James.

Pixelaid, I did find a whole lot of weird files dated a few days ago when the problem started in the root of my site and they had that /*visitorTracker*/ code in the file. Thanks for the info…

I appreciate that I need to understand why this happened. That’s why I’m asking here if anyone has seen this before, since this thread has the same error message.

I do have backups, but comparing the contents of every single file would be very time-consuming. Especially given that I only spotted the missing single quotes the 3rd or 4th time I looked at this file and the line where the error was reported.

I had the same issue with 2 of my own sites (on HostGator) 2 days ago and this morning one of my clients (also HostGator) reported the same issue.

By comparing to other sites that are working, I figured out the problem was missing single quotes in these lines of code in wp-blog-header.php
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require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . /wp-load.php );

wp();

require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . /template-loader.php );
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I corrected the code by adding back those single quotes to look like this, and the sites came back up.
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require_once( dirname(__FILE__) . ‘/wp-load.php’ );

wp();

require_once( ABSPATH . WPINC . ‘/template-loader.php’ );
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I would love to know what’s causing this. For my client’s site, she did report that she added a new blog post and then the error showed up when she tried to view the site. Her site is protected by Sitelock, but mine aren’t.

Any clarification on what might be causing this would be most appreciated.