SMF 2.0 crashed hosting server and don't know why...

[rhynes]

Got this across the top of my forum now after my forum crashed my host server:

$ssi_db_user = ''; $cachedir = '/home/"pathtodirectory"/cache'; ?> 

Anyone know how to fix this?


I don't know what happened with the forum but this is the first time in 2 years with this host that they had to take my chat site offline. I did database checks, file checks, checked all the logs but there's no indication as to why this happened.

[Oldiesmann]

Your Settings.php file got messed up. If you have a file in your forum directory called "Settings_bak.php", delete Settings.php and rename "Settings_bak.php" to "Settings.php". Otherwise, you'll need to fix it manually.

[rhynes]

That didn't fix it - this is annoying, nothing has changed in my forum at all...

any other ideas?

[JimM]

Do you still have the text at the top of your forum?  What Oldiesmann suggested normally fixes the problem.  Did anything change when you replaced the Settings.php file with the Settings_bak.php file?