Just lost my forums

[lawman]

My site was running phpBB but was the target of numerous hacks so I switched to SMF. Got everything setup and the theme modded just the way I wanted. Users began to register and post then... 

I get

Warning: main(/home/raov/public_html/smf/Settings.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/raov/public_html/smf/index.php on line 44

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/home/raov/public_html/smf/Settings.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/raov/public_html/smf/index.php on line 44

When I checked MySQL, all the tables were gone! I restored from a backup but I still can't connect.

any ideas?

[Oldiesmann]

Are you sure the database info is correct? What error message are you getting now?

[lawman]

This is the error message I'm getting now:

Warning: main(/home/raov/public_html/smf/Settings.php): failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/raov/public_html/smf/index.php on line 44

Fatal error: main(): Failed opening required '/home/raov/public_html/smf/Settings.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/raov/public_html/smf/index.php on line 44

Before I rolled back to a backup I was getting an Internal Server Error.

I can see my tables and all the data seems to be there... Ijust cant access it.

[kaiko]

Make sure that Settings.php exists on your server and  is in the right the right place. Also make sure that Settings.php has read permissions for all groups (chmod 644).

[andrea]

You can look directly into the db content with phpMyAdmin and see if your db is still there or really gone. Have you done this?

[[Unknown]]

Well, the error messages basically say this:

Hi!  Someone deleted Settings.php.  I need it to work.  Bye.

You may have a backup, named something like "Settings_bak.php".  If so, please copy this to "Settings.php".

-[Unknown]

[lawman]

thats the weird thing... my settings.php was there - I peplaced it with the .bak just in case it got messed up but still didn't work.

and yes the contents of the db were intact.

I eventually made a copy of my theme, resinstalled and connected to the existing db and  and all is fine now. Not sure what ever happened though.

thanks for everyone's input! 

[Amacythe]

I'm glad you got it working again.  The only thing I find in this thread that looks a bit suspicious is that you refer to settings.php but it must be Settings.php (maybe you didn't capitalize it?)