Help! I broke my entire site installation

  • Hello,

    I’m new to WordPress, and only minimally experienced with databases and php, but after much trial and error and blood sweat and tears, I was able to get my self-hosted WordPress installation up and running. In fact, my custom site (for a client) was almost complete.

    Then tonight I managed to break the entire thing by attempting to move the files. DUH. The files are all back in their original locations, but the site doesn’t work now – won’t load at all.

    This is a matter of some urgency, as the site was supposed to be done and turned over to the client in a few days.

    Any help I can get to figure out how fix what I’ve broken would be GREATLY appreciated!!

    Many thanks in advance!

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  • Moderator Jan Dembowski

    (@jdembowski)

    Forum Moderator and Brute Squad

    We’ll need some more information then that. Are you getting any errors displayed on the web page or just a blank white page?

    If its a blank page then check your web server’s error log. It could be you missed putting back all the files and you are generating a 500 server error. The log should provide a clue where the issue is.

    Thread Starter ecocorvi

    (@ecocorvi)

    Hello,

    All files in the root folder were copied/pasted at once, and no coded was altered, so I’m fairly certain I didn’t miss any files. The irony is that by moving the files I was trying to troubleshoot a separate issue.

    How do I check the error log?

    When I try to open the site (in the browser, I get this:

    ( ! ) Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VAR in /Users/CorviDesign/Documents/Websites/www.ludington2.dev/wp-includes/comment-template.php on line 1224
    Call Stack
    # Time Memory Function Location
    1 0.0018 378856 {main}( ) ../index.php:0
    2 0.0029 453468 require_once( ‘/Users/CorviDesign/Documents/Websites/www.ludington2.dev/wp-admin/admin.php’ ) ../index.php:10
    3 0.0034 467020 require_once( ‘/Users/CorviDesign/Documents/Websites/www.ludington2.dev/wp-load.php’ ) ../admin.php:30
    4 0.0037 479536 require_once( ‘/Users/CorviDesign/Documents/Websites/www.ludington2.dev/wp-config.php’ ) ../wp-load.php:29
    5 0.0050 561332 require_once( ‘/Users/CorviDesign/Documents/Websites/www.ludington2.dev/wp-settings.php’ ) ../wp-config.php:92

    Again, since all files were moved and returned together, with no code changed at all, I don’t understand how it could possible that something were missing. Makes no sense.

    I assumed I broke the connection to the database somehow, but I don’t know how to even begin here..

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