May 31, 201412 yr Right, where do I begin. Free Virtual Servers' server updates kept changing my htaccess file making the code that parses the site as php to redirect to my mobile version broken, so the code displays at the top of the page - they managed to do this twice in a week. I was given the solution to make htaccess immutable, so it couldn't be changed - fine I thought... Then less than 24 hours they made more server changes, and because my htaccess file was now immutable didn't change it, the result being that as it was such a big change, my site went down! The site itself exists and is fine - but the blog post links were all 404'ing - I naturally blamed FVS, who were vague about any potential cause - I recreated the blog's htaccess file after deleting the one already there and this solved it. To add insult to this, Google tried to crawl the site while it was down and I dropped off page one as a result. The message being that google couldn't find my robots.txt file - well I didn't have one! So I tried to "fetch as google" and index my site again but the robots error is still showing - so I created a damn robots file as FVS were too vague in their response again. I now find that I can't submit all linked urls as this box in webmaster tools is now greyed out - and to top it all, I'm told when it tries to fetch and index my blog (inserted inside my site) that it's 301 redirected to the same url it is already on! Here's the google message: HTTP/1.1 301 Moved Permanently Date: Sat, 31 May 2014 21:17:39 GMT Server: Apache Location: http://www.fizzwebdesign.co.uk/blog/ Content-Length: 244 Connection: close Content-Type: text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN"> <html><head> <title>301 Moved Permanently</title> </head><body> <h1>Moved Permanently</h1> <p>The document has moved <a href="http://www.fizzwebdesign.co.uk/blog/">here</a>.</p> </body></html> I haven't set up a 301 for the blog - it's in the same place it always has been. I feel like I'm being sabotaged, any help as to what's going on? Is it all FVS' fault?
June 2, 201412 yr Author Sure - this is for the site as a whole, not the blog part. Options +FollowSymlinks RewriteEngine on RewriteCond %{http_host} ^mysite.co.uk [nc] RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.mysite.co.uk/$1 [r=301,nc] RewriteRule ^index\.html$ / [R=301,L] RewriteRule ^(.*)/index\.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L] AddType application/x-httpd-php5 .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml .htm .html #AddHandler fcgid-script .php5 .php4 .php .php3 .php2 .phtml .html .htm #FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php5 #FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php4 #FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php #FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php3 #FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .php2 #FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .phtml #FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .htm #FCGIWrapper /usr/local/cpanel/cgi-sys/php5 .html But it also turns out that I've been hacked with a conditional redirect to adult sites, so it doesn't happen every time you try to replicate it. This is what aw-snap.info is finding - but I can't find it on my site anywhere, last night I reloaded WordPress, but no joy.. Content that was returned by your request for the URL: http://www.mysite.co.uk Note: Content displayed is from the redirect location, the URL http://xe67sxcdb1v1n3s5muwre7p.sanalmatik.net/index.php?g=aW1wc3Z6PWJ4bmsmdGltZT0xNDA2MDExNjUwMjkxNzkxMzQxOSZzcmM9MTA5JnN1cmw9d3d3LmZpenp3ZWJkZXNpZ24uY28udWsmc3BvcnQ9ODAma2V5PUExREFFRDE3JnN1cmk9Lw== 1:< html> < head> < title> index< /title> < /head> < body> < script > if (typeof(location.replace)!='undefined') { top.location.replace( "hxxp://95wbe830tumxyapvztcz6ix.adultvideoz.net/adsort.php?xx=1&aid=2&atr=dirs&src=109" ); } else { top.location.href = "hxxp://95wbe830tumxyapvztcz6ix.adultvideoz.net/adsort.php?xx=1&aid=2&atr=dirs&src=109" ; }; < / script > Note: The script call above looks suspicious! Check to make sure it is legit. < /body> < /html> Edited June 2, 201412 yr by beelzebomb
June 2, 201412 yr Author Thanks I have already done exactly that and found nothing - I've now taken down my blog (deleted off server) and put up a maintenance page. But Google still can't find my robots file so won't crawli my site - same message each time I 'fetch' - I've now slipped off page one so this is getting desperate for my income.
June 2, 201412 yr Author Yes it is the same path, I've now reloaded my entire site and all javascript files etc - also contacted host who have restarted (?) the firewall as google suggests one reason might be that host is blocking googlebot (though surely that's insane!) or their firewall is blocking it. The redirect seems to be conditional, so doesn't show up each time I check, so not sure if it's gone or not. FVS aren't providing free hosting - it's a paid package, bit of a rubbish name though they do provide some limited free hosting packages as well. Came highly recommended by fellow web designers and hosters a few years back but service really seems to be on a downward spiral & I know some of those have now left them.
June 2, 201412 yr Author Thanks for the suggestions, thumping every hacker in the face would make me feel much better right now!
June 2, 201412 yr This is probably almost entirely a hacking issue. This post in another thread has a link to a site that can help you sort and prevent problems like this. http://www.webdesignerforum.co.uk/topic/77199-creating-a-website-for-a-hotel-using-wordrpress/?p=473818
June 3, 201412 yr Author Thanks Weedy101, I'm going to completely fresh install my WP blog and re-upload all the posts to be safe. Quite a few people recommend Sucuri and I guess at 50 odd quid a year it's good value - I've had 2 hacks in the past 2 years and it stuffs up your google listing, SEO and takes a huge amount of time to sort out - well worth it. I am considering completely deleting the database and creating a new one, or is this overkill? Guess the downside is that I will lose all the comments? I can't think of a way round this really.
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