blog will not load… and I cannot access admin

  • Hello all,

    all was fine early yesterday… but today, my blog will not load (www.theebooksale.com/wordpress). Also, I cannot login to the the admin.
    When I ftp in, the only file that I see changed yesterday was a file called “secured.php” found in the wp-content directory. I don’t remember seeing this file before… Anyone any ideas?

    The “secured.php” file looks like this:
    <?php /* WARNING: This file is protected by copyright law. To reverse engineer or decode this file is strictly prohibited. */
    $o=”QAA4Ozh3b3cKDQoNKA………………………….and so on for several thousand characters

    This might have nothing to do with it… not sure.
    Any advice would be great.
    Thanks.

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  • Redirect Loop
    Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.The browser has stopped trying to retrieve the requested item. The site is redirecting the request in a way that will never complete.

    301 -> //www.theebooksale.com/wordpress
    301 -> //www.theebooksale.com/wordpress/
    301 -> //theebooksale.com/wordpress/
    301 -> //www.theebooksale.com/wordpress/

    I requested the url //www.theebooksale.com/wordpress

    and server response was;

    HTTP Status Code: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently
    Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:00:21 GMT
    Server: Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora)
    Location: //www.theebooksale.com/wordpress/
    Content-Length: 331
    Connection: close
    Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1

    content retrieved was:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>301 Moved Permanently</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Moved Permanently</h1>
<p>The document has moved <a href="https://www.theebooksale.com/wordpress/">here</a>.</p>
<hr>
<address>Apache/2.2.8 (Fedora) Server at www.theebooksale.com Port 80</address>
</body></html>

    Redirects causing a cyclic redundancy of some sort?

    Of course, that still doesn’t solve the secured.php file that mysteriously appeared.

    [EDIT]

    Now this is interesting… I wish I knew what I was looking at.

    https://www.theebooksale.com/wordpress/wp-content/secured.php

    I see you have not modified any plugins since 25-Jun-2009 08:54. Have you made any changes from your hosting panel of any sort? I have no clue what that file would be doing in /wp-content.

    Thread Starter ballyc27

    (@ballyc27)

    Hi,

    no, I’ve made no changes from the hosting panel. Normally, I post daily but have not done so for almost 1 week.

    Let me look into your other findings.
    Thank-you.

    Thread Starter ballyc27

    (@ballyc27)

    Hi again,

    what command/syntax must I use to ‘request a url’?
    The content received in the above post… where is this content from?

    Sorry, just figuring this out as I go.

    You can use any of many online services to quickly view header responses if you like. I have this one in my bookmarks for quick reference.

    https://web-sniffer.net/

    I use this one on occasion as well.

    https://www.seoconsultants.com/tools/headers.asp

    Thread Starter ballyc27

    (@ballyc27)

    Hi,

    this is what fixed this issue:

    There is a table in the database called wpstart_options which contains two rows called site_url and home. These rows had the value https://theebooksale.com – I changed the value to https://www.theebooksale.com and that fixed it.

    Still don’t know that the ‘secure.php’ file is about!

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