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Site Crashed - Only "config.php" appears when trying to navigate to site or control panel

August 24, 2014 3:33pm

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  • #1 / Aug 24, 2014 3:33pm

    Unbridled Books

    16 posts

    Hi,

    I was routinely adding a blog to this site.  When I hit the submit button, a text-like version of the config.php file (from the config directory in EE) appears in the browser.  The same thing happens when I try to go to the control panel. 

    I’m running version 2.13 of EE.  The website is:  http://healingherbinfo.com  The control panel link is http://healingherbinfo.com/system

    I have looked all through the forums and couldn’t find anything that fits.  It’s as if PHP isn’t running on this domain anymore.  My database looks fine in myPHPAdmin.  I have tried different browsers and clearing out all the cache files using FTP.  I messed with permissions on the index.php files, but no luck.

    I recently changed hosting services to iPage.  I had a little trouble getting the site changed over, but had it working pretty quickly.  It was more responsive than my old host and seemed to pull things up very quickly.  Today though, was the first time since the changeover that I tried to add new content and this is what happened.

    There is no .htaccess file (there never has been).  FYI.  I’m really not sure what to do next.  Someone please help!

    Warren Austin

  • #2 / Aug 24, 2014 4:18pm

    Unbridled Books

    16 posts

    Sorry for the post, but I figured it out shortly after posting.  In case anyone is interested, the problem was a corrupted “config.php” file.  I noticed at the bottom of the browser window, it said “it appears your config.php file is not formatted properly”.  So I replaced it with a backup and all was fixed.

    I think it was caused by the fact that I failed to update the direct server paths for the file upload preferences.  They were still pointing to the absolute path of the old server.

    For what it’s worth.

    Warren Austin

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