Index Page of Blog Broke

  • Resolved breakingranks

    (@breakingranks)


    15 years, 6 months ago

    Recently my client’s wordpress-based web site was hacked, and after hours and hours of clean-up, there’s one problem I can’t fix.

    The index.php for the blog doesn’t work. It redirects to Tripod – a competitor of the actual web host (Dreamhost).

    The redirect occurs whether the url ends with / or /index.php. I see nothing wrong with the index.php in that directory. I see nothing wrong with the files index.php calls. I’ve tried searching the whole site for the word “tripod” and I can’t find it.

    I’ve looked at the .htaccess for both the top directory and the subdirectory with wordpress, and again I see nothing wrong. In both cases Mod Rewrite uses a relative URL.

    In the directory for the blog, there is only an index.php, no index.htm/html

    The web site is here. I’ve only left one link to the blog on the bottom of the home page – if you click that you will see the problem.

    Any ideas? ??

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  • Would help immensley if we could see the site but you did not provide a link. Want to post one?
    If it was hacked then maybe you did not clean everything up. Have you tried replacing the index.php with a fresh one from WP? Did you check what the default Page is set to in WP? Did you try replacing the existing index.php with just a basic html (non WP) version of index.php? Did you do a search of the database for tripod?

    Thread Starter breakingranks

    (@breakingranks)

    Hi there, thanks for the reply. Oops, I see I provided the link to the site instead of the blog page. The blog index page should be here.

    I did try searching the DB for tripod, and I’m still looking for hacked files. This hacking occured a month after I installed 2.7.1 and took various security precautions, so obviously I missed something the first time. ??

    The path to the Default Page is right in the Dashboard Settings. Is there also a file I should look at for this?

    I haven’t tried replacing index.php because I don’t see any hack code in it, but I will give that a try.

    Thread Starter breakingranks

    (@breakingranks)

    Replacing index.php from a new copy of wordpress didn’t work. ??

    I also suddenly got the option to automatically re-install with automatic update today (I didn’t seem to have that option yesterday – AU just told me I had the most current version). I did the re-install, and I’m still getting the Tripod page. ??

    Looks like you fixed it.

    Thread Starter breakingranks

    (@breakingranks)

    Yes, now it’s showing one post. I’m not sure at what point that one post started showing because I had to clean out my browser cache again. =/

    Unfortunately it’s still broken because it only shows the latest post, not the index page with a list of blog posts. ??

    Thread Starter breakingranks

    (@breakingranks)

    Fixed!

    I had to deactivate two plug-ins:

    WP-Email and WP-Print, both by Lester ‘GaMerZ’ Chan. Neither of these plug-ins were working correctly even though they showed as updated on the Plug-ins page. I’ll look for some other plug-ins to replace them.

    Replacing the blog page reminded me that WP 2.7.1 ruined the font-size on my blogroll and link lists. More to fix. T_T

    It looks to me like its the whole site anjd all blogs..
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    All there…

    Might be the plugins were hacked. Get fresh copies. I have Never once had an issue with any of Lester’s plugins. Am a supporter of his. well worth it. And if you still have the problem ask him. He is very good.

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