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Found it! There were “2” wp-security-scan folders! One in the main folder and another under the website name. Once I deleted it everything came back.

Tommy & Govpatel…thank you both soooo much for your help. I don’t know why you guys help amateurs like me, but I sure do appreciate it.

Marian

Govpatel,

Yes, I’ve tried reloading the website by refreshing. Just used Ctrl+F5 as you suggested and got the same.

Is there any other place the file instructions might be stored that could be confusing the site?

I deleted the file, waited overnight in case GoDaddy takes forever to recognize my change, and this morning I have the exact same error.

Any more help???

Trying delete. I think it takes a bit to register, so will test again in an hour.

Thanks so much for all your help. I’ll post again to close the loop or ask for more help (hopefully the former).

Can WP-Security Scan be deleted from my FTP manager and then re-added once I’ve got things functioning again?

govpatel,

I tried renaming and that didn’t work. I’m still getting the same error code. Any other ideas?

Hi Tommy,

When I tried to access the file to edit, I got this:

“The file could not be loaded. Closing editor.”

I also tried the next suggestion to rename wp-security, but I’m still getting the same error code.

PS I’m on Linux

Lyle and Alicia,

Thanks for responding. I never resolved the above problem (and am on to the next one). I was able to recover my text from the original site, so I rebuilt it from scratch. It wasn’t too detailed yet, I was just building it. It took less time than the jammering around I was doing trying to make the upload work.

Now I have a second site. I was on HostGator and moved it to Godaddy where I’d paid for many services on my main site for 5 years and didn’t want to pay for 2 copies of (shopping cart etc).

I’ve got the basics done. Now I need to “import” the old database. I found one site that told me I’d have a problem if the User names & passwords were different from old site to new, so I added the user name & password. I’m pretty good with internet research and finding instructions, but I’m at a standstill now.

The site from Hostgator downloaded as a zip file. The zip isn’t recognized if I use PHPAdmin to upload. I tried going in through my file manager, but it “archived” the files. If I unzip, it gives me HUNDREDS of files that I’d have to download. That can’t possibly be right. Am I going to have to rebuild this one from scratch too?

All help/insight is appreciated.

Marian

Update:

Text is now appearing. Moved files under WordPress into like named folders in wp-content

All formatting is gone. Site address is MarianMadonia.com