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[RESOLVED] Getting my articles back

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Ready Steady Yeti (talkcontribs)

Hey. I need some help very badly. My English wiki is down for like no reason at http://monathevampirewiki.org/ on all pages. It happened suddenly and I cannot fix this. I'm not very happy right now at all. Could someone please, I beg of you, tell me how I can back up all of my articles? All the files are still on my FTP and I just KNOW the articles must be stored somewhere on the FTP, so if someone could please tell me how I can get my articles back. I hope I can still get the articles due to the English wiki being shut down. I can deal with the rest from there. I can just make a new subdomain for all of at http://en.monathevampirewiki.org/ which is what I wanted to do anyway. I just need ALL of the articles, redirects, user pages, templates, files, all that stuff. I don't need to back up the site itself, just the exact wikicode text of all the articles on the English wiki, and then I can install another wiki and copy paste all the articles. I know that's a lot of work, but I'm gonna have to do that, because I already tried importing my wiki to another subdomain, but it was having the same problem. Thanks. I really really need this help though because I worked for a long time to get me to where I have gotten with the wiki.

Jackmcbarn (talkcontribs)

They're in the database. Look in your LocalSettings.php for the connection details.

Ready Steady Yeti (talkcontribs)

Are there specific instructions on how to do this?

88.130.94.206 (talkcontribs)

What Jack says would point to wrong database credentials. These are set in LocalSettings.php. However, I do not think that this is the problem in your case: Wrong DB credentials produce an according error, which you do not get.

Instead it looks like something might be wrong with short URLs: Your server is configured to direct calls to the domain to the URL with .../Main_Page attached. This however currently gives me this error message:

Sorry, this document was not found on this server. You may request this document by emailing me at readysteadyyetirsy@gmail.com 

What ever you have done to make this message appear: Undo it and we will see, what happens!

Jackmcbarn (talkcontribs)

I was giving instructions to manually recover the content, which is what he asked for. I made no attempt to diagnose the problem.

Florianschmidtwelzow (talkcontribs)
88.130.94.206 (talkcontribs)

Correct - the database settings are correct and all content is still there. Most likely this indeed is a problem with mod_rewrite.

Apart from that it seems to be only you who does no longer find the wiki - the spam bots have no problems at all: They are registering like stupid.

Ready Steady Yeti (talkcontribs)

Yes, I now have extracted all of the necessary articles from the English wiki because of "index.php". Thank you guys for your support.

This goes for another topic on this website, as far as the new website I plan to make, which will be a huge "megawiki" (I made up this word, and I define it as a wiki with an infinite amount of possible newcoming content, such as Wikipedia or Wiktionary), and will have these articles on them.

Anyway, problem resolved. Thanks so much for the support. The entire website will be left there until the entire site messes up or until July 11, 2015, since that's when the site expires, and then I will not use GoDaddy because that was a shitty idea in the first place. The only reason I used GoDaddy was so that I could have a temporary website and get a basic idea of what owning a website was like. Now that I know about things like FTPs and subdomains and things like that, I will have an easier time running my future website. However, using GoDaddy is never a good idea, so don't ever use it unless you have no other choice.

88.130.124.144 (talkcontribs)

Nice to hear that this state is OK for you (the redirect is still wrong...) Anyway - what you might still want to do is Combating spam, especially you might want to restrict registration to stop spammers.

Ciencia Al Poder (talkcontribs)

Note that if you want your domain name, you should not let it expire, because GoDaddy will "buy" it when it expires (in fact, since it's a domain registrar, it will just make GoDaddy the owner of it) and it will be put for auction, meaning you would have to pay a lot if you ever want to gain that domain name later!

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