sahilgulati5 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Hi, Everything was working perfect till last week suddenly the site is not working and now its saying to install Oscommerce Online Merchant 2.3.4. We are using Cpanel. How do we bring the site back live again. Thank you for all your help in advance. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥JcMagpie Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 That will only happen if you have not removed the install directory. Rename the install directory and try again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahilgulati5 Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 Hi, I am new to OSC with no knowledge of PHP or HTML. I have CPanel Access. Please tell me how do i delete the install directory. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥JcMagpie Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Well untill you know why its gone wrong simply rename the directory. Use the file manager in cpanel and rename the directory. But if you have no experiance who installed your website? you should first aske them as they may know what has happend. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahilgulati5 Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 Hi, Should i delete install folder or rename it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥JcMagpie Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 for now just rename it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥JcMagpie Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 You should not list your directory on the forum! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtcoInc Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 @sahilgulati5 If I may, before you do anything else .... STOP! Before you go any further ... 1) You said that your store was working up until 5 days ago. What has changed? 2) Do you have a backup of your original site, both the files and the database? 3) What screen is telling you to install osC 2.3.4? A few things to think about ... A) osC 2.3.4 is OBSOLETE. I recommend that you DO NOT install it! B) Installing a new copy of osC will (most likely) overwrite your original site, meaning you will loose all history, customer data, products, store customization, etc. Again, STOP! C) Who set up your shop in the first place? Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥14steve14 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 As @ArtcoInc has mentioned. Stop what you are doing. Do not overwrite anything. If you do everything could be lost. If your site was working faultlessly up until the last few days, you need to find out what had changed. If your hosts have a backup copy, and most good hosts will, ask then to reload a good known working copy of your site. That should at least restore it back to a known working site. They may even have a good database copy which can be uploaded. Your hosts may have also changed something. Generally most hosts will lie and say that they have changed nothing. Keep pestering them. If you dont have a good backup, you have just learned lesson one. If you feel that you need to do a full install, use the latest community bootstrap version. The official version available though things like softilicious in the cpanel is rubbish and out dated. REMEMBER BACKUP, BACKUP AND BACKUP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahilgulati5 Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 Hi, Really now idea. As it was working perfectly fine. Now when I try to visit the home page or any other page it shows install oscommerce. No one other than me has access to cpanel.. Nor anything as been changed by me from past few months.. So I am really understanding what went wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
♥14steve14 Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 Websites dont just vanish. Someone did something. Your hosts have access. Speak to them. If they are any good they will be able to help you. If they are no good, move to better ones. REMEMBER BACKUP, BACKUP AND BACKUP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtcoInc Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 @sahilgulati5 As @14steve14 mentioned, someone did something. Your host may have changed something (like the version of PHP they are running), or you could have been hacked, or ... 1) I'll ask again, do you have backups of your site, both the store code and the database? 2) Have you contacted your host? (by the way, who is your host?) 3) If you are the person in charge of your shop, I strongly urge you to: A) Do not use any 1-click install packages available through your host (or cPanel). They are typically out of date. Take the responsibility to research the application yourself. Your host will not be able to offer ANY support for ANY application (be it WordPress, osCommerce, etc) ... it is up to you to find the support you need (like here ) B) Learn how to make backups of both your store code and the database. TEST that the backups are valid, and that you can indeed restore off of your backups. C) Learn to use an FTP client (such as Filezilla) to administer your shop, and use cPanel only for those tasks that require it. If all of this is beyond your skills, or you don't have the time, please hire someone you trust to do this for you. Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrPhil Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 1. Find out from your host if they just upgraded PHP at about the time your store stopped working. osC 2.3.4 (the official version) will run poorly (or not at all) on PHP 7, and may have problems with PHP 5.5 and later. If this is what happened, you want to migrate your data to osC 2.3.4.1BS "Edge", rather than trying to fix an old osC version. 2. Did your host just restore a backup of your site, that might still have the "install" directory? Did your server crash (and was restored) around that time? That must have been a very old backup! No good host would use a months-old backup, and not tell you about it. 3. Go into your control panel file manager and look at the "last updated" timestamps on all your files. Is there anything suspiciously recent, that might indicate you were hacked? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahilgulati5 Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 Hi, I am relatively new. So I really don't have a back up of anything. I am using namecheap host. I got a mail from Google search console on 15th May. " New Index coverage issue detected for sitehttps://www.kartoffr.com/ To owner of https://www.kartoffr.com/, Search Console has identified that your site is affected by 1 new Index coverage related issue. This means that Index coverage may be negatively affected in Google Search results. We encourage you to review and consider fixing this issue. " Can this be a reason?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtcoInc Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 @MrPhil The Install screen on the site shows PHP at version 5.6.35 @sahilgulati5 You say that's dated 15 May? As in, eleven months ago (or more)??? And no, I don't think that has anything to do with what's happening now. As has been suggested, contact your host, and ask them to restore your site (both files and database) to what it was a week ago (before this problem arose). Once that's done, you can learn how to back up everything yourself. Malcolm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahilgulati5 Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 Hi Thank you will contact my host tomorrow and ask them to restore it back to the way it was.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sahilgulati5 Posted April 19, 2018 Author Share Posted April 19, 2018 Sorry it's not 15th May.. It's 15th April.. Just 4 days back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ArtcoInc Posted April 19, 2018 Share Posted April 19, 2018 @sahilgulati5 I *think* the message from Google says that they scanned your store on the 15th, that they saw that something was wrong, and suggested that you look into it. In other words, they didn't cause the problem, but they did notice the problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ruden Posted April 20, 2018 Share Posted April 20, 2018 14 hours ago, sahilgulati5 said: Sorry it's not 15th May.. It's 15th April.. Just 4 days back. Recover from the most recent backup these files admin/includes/configure.php includes/configure.php Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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