You Must Enter A User Name (ERROR)

[svphost]

Hi there,

We woke up this morning and our form was down.  This is what we found out.

Settings.php had 0 bytes and no data.

We restored the Settings.php file with no problem.

But now when you go to login, it tells you that a username is required.

Thanks for any and all help.

[H]

Hi svphost,

Are you using a custom theme? If so does it work with the default?

If it doesn't work with the default theme I'd suggested you re-upload files from an install archive except for settings.php and install.php and it is likely some other files have been hacked or corrupted. You'll need to reinstall any mods.

[svphost]

We are using the default theme.  We have re-uploaded all of the site files and we still get this error.  We currently put up the maintenance page until we can figure this out.

Thanks,
Svphost

[H]

This is very strange as I would've expected it to fail all the time or never.

Can you confirm that the settings.php is correct? You can check with repair_settings.php (What is repair_settings.php?)

[svphost]

Repair Settings Did Not Fix It....

[H]

If you look in the smf_members table are the usernames correct? You can check with phpmyadmin (See: What is phpMyAdmin?)

You could also check to see if the host changed or updated anything