Just Installed WP – all themes, styles & formatting disappeared!

  • I have just installed latest WP today, added a theme and a few plugins. The lastest plugin installed and activated was DBC Backup. When I refreshed home page, I saw just PLAIN text – no style, no images, no formatting!
    Here is what my homepage looks like after that happened:
    https://www.screencast.com/t/w0jUv4GX4CN

    Then I went to admin panel and looked at Appearance — Themes and found that all themes are ‘corrupted’ in a sense that none of them displays a mini-picture and upon activating theme preview – shows just plain text. I tired 3 different theme – all the same (plain text shown on preview).
    Here is what I mean:
    https://www.screencast.com/t/gvQfW4ezUkd

    I tried to deactivated latest installed plugins, even most of the installed previously; I even did a database restore from backup – all to no avail. Nothing helped.
    I’ve been working with WP for several years, but never saw anything as odd as this. Do you have a clue what could be wrong and how I can fix this strange problem?

    Thank you in advance

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  • Thread Starter aveter

    (@aveter)

    The website with the problem is https://www.cityvillestrategytips.com

    thanks

    Wondering if you have some permisiions issues on your server? For instance if I try to view your css
    https://www.cityvillestrategytips.com/wp-content/themes/flexsqueeze140/style.css

    I get a forbidden message.

    Forbidden
    You don’t have permission to access /wp-content/themes/flexsqueeze140/style.css on this server.

    If I can’t see your css, neither can my browser……

    Thread Starter aveter

    (@aveter)

    I can’t see style.css in my browser either, however this same problem apears with THREE different themes included the default theme that comes with wordpress installation (v. 3.0.4)

    Permissions are as follows:
    style.php – rw-r–r– (644)
    style.css – rwxrwxrwx (777) – I don’t think ‘too much permission’ can cause troubles, or can it?

    Right, none of your themes will work if its a permissions issue….
    You should be able to click that link I posted, and see your actual style.css file, not a forbidden message

    It could be an issue with your actual host, or with your wp-content folder…..

    Thread Starter aveter

    (@aveter)

    What kind of ‘host issue’ this could be and what could be wrong with wp-content? Can you give some ideas of what to look for?

    thanks

    Thread Starter aveter

    (@aveter)

    you were right – I went through my other WP blogs, all they had 775 for w-content/themes/THEMENAME, whereas on this problematic site permission was 755.

    So I changed permissions on all folders beginning from wp-content down to the theme folder and including style.css file to 775, yet I still have this issue:

    Forbidden

    You don’t have permission to access /wp-content/themes/flexsqueeze140/style.css on this server.

    What else could be the problem?
    thank you

    Thread Starter aveter

    (@aveter)

    The problem is solved. As this was new site, it has to be added to apache and nginx config files. To do that, simply type in ssh:

    /etc/nginx/conf.d/sites.conf ?

    /etc/httpd/conf.d/sites.conf ?

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