asyenka

@m0ze I have been using Wordfence for security and it seems to be doing a pretty good job at blocking attacks and hasn’t notified me of any malicious code, but I use the free version, so maybe it’s not as effective? I just disabled, it along with all other plugins though and so far looks like the site is working (minus the contact form that requires one of the plugins). I’m going to try to reactivate the plugins one per day so enough time passes to see if any start causing problems.

@dvaer @emahajan I celebrated too soon.. It’s down again, the permissions keep changing by themselves. I tried to repeat what I did before but it’s not working this time… ??
I had some sub-folders in uploads that had the permissions changed to 777 (so anyone can write to them)! Also the code in the htaccess file keeps changing after I edit it. Could my website be hacked? Or does it sound more like an issue with plugins/themes?

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by asyenka.

@emahajan @dvaer Problem solved!!! ??
Turns out it was both a permissions and htaccess issue. I think my problem before was that I would just change one, then revert back to how it was before trying to fix the other. But just now I’ve updated both and everything seems up and running. Thank you both!

@emahajan uploads permission is “644”, but there is no sub-folders or content…. the folder is empty…

@dvaer actually I found a way around it by creating a copy in a different folder and removing the “.” at the beginning of the name. I’ve made the change to the “.htaccess” file that is still in the original folder but that didn’t help.

• This reply was modified 2 years, 1 month ago by asyenka.

@dvaer Agh! That’s one of the things that I’ve tried to do before, but didn’t actually go through with because for some reason I was unable to rename, move or pretty much do anything to the .htaccess file through the cPanel. Like I would edit the name, but then it reverts back to “.htaccess”… I don’t know what I’m doing wrong, but for some reason whenever I try to follow what appears fairly simple/clear steps for debugging my website, it’s just so much more complicated on my hosting site. Would you say at this point, this is something only the hosting site on their end can solve?