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I am shocked, as this has changed what I thought was the way things worked.
I am hosting a Wordpress site on my server, not written by me, not maintained by me.
Had a call to say that there was an issue and could I help. Logged in and there was a dreadful redirect going on, and it was impossible to login to WP-admin.
So - I restored the site from a full backup for the day before - same problem.
So I restored the site from a full backup two weeks ago - same problem! Thats weird.. there was not an issue two weeks ago, not even last week.
I built an index.html file which said 'Maintenance in Progress etc.' to prevent visitors from being exposed to the redirect. I uploaded via FTP
I then restored from three weeks ago - Same problem! And not only that, but my html file was still in place!
This time I used SSH to delete ALL files/folders in httpdocs except my html
Then I restored again from one week ago - All worked fine after removing the still present html.
The restore does not write over the top of the current site, and therefore can leave current problems in place.
Am I the only one to be shocked and surpised by this?
regards
Steve
I am shocked, as this has changed what I thought was the way things worked.
I am hosting a Wordpress site on my server, not written by me, not maintained by me.
Had a call to say that there was an issue and could I help. Logged in and there was a dreadful redirect going on, and it was impossible to login to WP-admin.
So - I restored the site from a full backup for the day before - same problem.
So I restored the site from a full backup two weeks ago - same problem! Thats weird.. there was not an issue two weeks ago, not even last week.
I built an index.html file which said 'Maintenance in Progress etc.' to prevent visitors from being exposed to the redirect. I uploaded via FTP
I then restored from three weeks ago - Same problem! And not only that, but my html file was still in place!
This time I used SSH to delete ALL files/folders in httpdocs except my html
Then I restored again from one week ago - All worked fine after removing the still present html.
The restore does not write over the top of the current site, and therefore can leave current problems in place.
Am I the only one to be shocked and surpised by this?
regards
Steve
