Hi @loobyloo

1) Have sent you a private message
2) I note that using loobynet.co.uk I can see your stuff for example
http://loobynet.co.uk/pantygirdle/

3) If you know how to ftp or send files
a) make a plain empty text file called index.txt
b) change the ending to htm or make one intiially called index.htm
c) place this in the root of your website and this will stop basic access to you files

If you can do this you can then make an .htaccess file to properly secure your site

alternatively from a new download of b2evo extract the .htaccess file and upload that.

With a new install you may want to save some of the stuff on your website and clean it out. Otherwise you will have to selectively delete conflicting/duplicate files as overwriting may not work.

Many thanks amoun.

I'm a little nearer. The site appears again now -- more or less as I want it.

Unfortunately, one strange thing is that there's redirect which has crept in from somewhere. Typing the base URL sends it to loobynet.co.uk/3. It also means that it is impossible to login, since it reports " /htsrv/login.php was not found on this server."

There are no redirects listed in cpanel, and in conf/_basic_config.php the baseurl is listed as /, not /3.

Do you or anyone have any idea where this redirect might have come from (I understand that this is user error, nothing to do with b2e)? I need to get into back offce and people need to be able to register.

OK
loobynet.co.uk just goes to [a closed for repairs page], which is a simple non-compliant text page :)

Looking at the source on loobynet.co.uk/3 you do seem to have the latest version [<meta name="generator" content="b2evolution 6.10.3-stable" />] and do have [<base href="/3/skins/asevo/" />]

See [_advanced.php]
For example
Line 430 $htsrv_subdir = 'htsrv/';

you could try and change this to
$htsrv_subdir = '3/htsrv/';

I can get to the login form with https://loobynet.co.uk/3/htsrv/login.php for example but I'm not suggesting this is a fix just way to investigate options

It seems that you may have installed a working version but have placed it in a folder called 3 :)

I may be saying the obvious but you can't login as you are trying to access
https://loobynet.co.uk/htsrv/login.php which doesn't exist
not https://loobynet.co.uk/3/htsrv/login.php

So you could try and change the conf/_basic_config.php the baseurl to /3 and see how much works. If all is ok then you can redirect the root to 3 in cpanel

Sent private message

@loobyloo What is GNSV? Please share the URL of this host.

Sent private message

@fplanque wrote earlier:

@loobyloo What is GNSV? Please share the URL of this host.

Hi François. It's https:/loobynet.co.uk I have uploaded an index.html but it doesn't appear unless you specify /index.html in the URL.

The site itself (in an old form) appears at https://loobynet.co.uk/3/ but I can't log in from that address.

I tried uploading a fresh install at root but it keeps wanting to redirect to /3 and the site will only appear when I rename the root folder to /3.

What I am asking for is: what is the website of your web hosting company?

Oh sorry, it's https://tsohost.com

OK, thanks. I have no notes on that host.

I'll let you work with @amoun then ;)

It's all sorted now, thanks to amoun's dogged patience in digging down in my b2e database, in which there were four overlapping sets of tables with different suffixes; and poking around in myphpadmin, doing a clean install on his own site and comparing that with my mess. Almost all of it was my fault, so I don't think there would be much point sharing the process by which we discovered the faults, nor what those faults were, since they arose from user error.

Many thanks amoun. My site is working fine now, and I've learnt something. I also would like to thank François and the other developers involved with b2e. The more I understand about how it is constructed, the more I admire the effort put into it.

:)

The private messaging previously was to exchange tel no ( in case anyone tries to solicit me, I don't do paid work). loobyloo and I met in a cafe in Bristol.

Problems were

1) using the same database on multiple installs which made initial checking a bit confusing.

2) The new install was in a sub root folder /3 which conflicted somehow with the base url which was set to / though was redirect edin the database to /3. I was too aggressive to log all that was done but I think the value of [blog_siteurl] in table [evo_blogs] was where the redirect was occurring.

So all references to baseurl and siteurl etc where set to root and all folders and files in /3 moved to root.

3) I think the newly generated passwords for each install encouraged the loss of the current password. Having a live but infrequently used email address meant is wasn't obvious where to get the 'lost password' output etc.