Re: My foruum is broken
Reply #1 –
The domain you gave has no connection to MySQL and is simply listing files in a folder. Since I can see a favicon.ico, I am assuming that it is the root folder and yet there are no other folders in it ( unlikely if you are using Elk ).
Someone / something has messed up your installation. From which end, I don't know.
Re: My foruum is broken
Reply #2 –
but also index.php is missing, and maybe other files, so clearly something went wrong on server
Re: My foruum is broken
Reply #3 –
Absolutely no idea what could have happened there.
I would save Settings.php (and Settings_bak.php), delete everything else and upload again the files.
This way you should get the forum back as it was (except for addons and themes installed that you should re-upload and install again, since they are gone with the files, I suspect there is no way to restore them).
As to why a lot of stuff was wiped out, you should ask your host for details.
Re: My foruum is broken
Reply #5 –
Would I lose everyones posts and images or does the DB hold all that? Basically delete the old forum files re-upload a fresh copy and replace settings.php and settings_bak.php ? I hope its that simple... :-)
Re: My foruum is broken
Reply #6 –
You would need your DB for posts. If you have cPanel or similar, get the backup. I wouldn't trust a DB on compromised server though. But if it is ok, it can give you all your posts. Once you install Elk again, you would be needing to import data from backed up DB ( at least, that's my way of doing recovery).
Normally, it will be in forum root where you will find the forum favicon. What is the status of public_html folder ? Did you check via FTP ? Is it affected ?
Re: My foruum is broken (SOLVED)
Reply #8 –
Wow! Wanted to say thanks Emanuele and Meetdilip. I just reinstalled a fresh copy after wiping out all files and folders, and replaced the two "settings" files, and BINGO BANGO it worked! Forum is back up as if nothing happened!
I cant get over how "cool" Elkarte forum software is....(hence my member name)....thanks again. If there is a way to show this thread as SOLVED let me know.