Last post by Burke Knight -
Have you reached out to your web host about this? This unfortunately sounds like an issue with the server, which might mean that the DDoS attack caused server issues, not site issues.
Last post by ahrasis -
I would reestablish a copy that forum (files and database) temporarily elsewhere, and run test(s) there. If there all are good, then I'd migrate the forum to that new location. Sorry, this might not be the solution you are looking for, but I think nowadays, moving things are faster than fixing things, especially when the causes are unknown / mystery, and I think that is also why we have snapshot(s) for virtual machine i.e. for easier and faster restoration.
Last post by Steeley -
Is there any other content on your server than you can access via the internet (and the forum is the only thing that is inaccessible)?
Is there other content besides the forum you also can't access?
Last post by Spuds -
That is strange, the admin panel only updates settings.php, it does not change anything in the database. Are you still getting a 500 error?
Last post by Mrs. Chaos -
I set it back to 0 in settings.php. But that didn't help. It’s probably because I also activated maintenance mode in the forum’s administration center afterward. I probably shouldn’t have done that. Attached are two screenshots I took while doing that (the text is in German). Is there any way I can get back there? Right now, I don’t know how to do that, since I can’t even access the admin area.
Last post by Spuds -
If you can access your Settings.php file, you need to edit that so $maintenance = 0; its probably set to 2 which makes it untouchable.
Last post by Steeley -
Taking a quick stab while waiting for Spuds, the first thing I'd look at is any .htaccess files in the public_html directory (or whatever the webroot folder is.) You may need to set the file manager to show hidden files. The .htaccess file is where servers often tuck IPs to be blocked, etc., and ElkArte (at least my v 1.1.6), has some config info in there as well.. I've not encountered the problem you refer to, but that's the first location I'd sniff around in to see what's there. If no clues there hopefully Spuds (or someone else more knowledgeable than I) has a better idea..
Attached are two screenshots I took while doing that (the text is in German).