Website has been fine for months but now shows a <?. Is this outage related?

Website URL

music-electronics-forum2.com

Error Message

Shows <?

Other Information

Not a new website and no recent changes.

Did you change your page’s php or html?

This isn’t outage related specifically, this seems to be a bug or error in your pages code

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Website URL

music-electronics-forum2.com

Error Message

Shows ?>

Other Information

Not a new website and no recent changes.

I haven’t touched it in months.

If you’ve got a backup of your site (always best practice) then maybe try re-uploading your backup.

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Just the website files correct? I have a database backup as well but it’s a few months old.

Yeh just the files.

The issue your facing looks to specifically be a problem with the html or php file for that page

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It was working yesterday morning and then it wasn’t. I don’t understand what has changed. Possible corruption on the server end?

Honestly, I don’t know, and its not something I can attest to. Admin might be able to shed some light on the situation.

None of us (apart from admin) are part of InfinityFree in any official capacity, we’re community members trying to help each other :slight_smile:

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Ok thanks for the help.

Installed my backup, repaired settings, and no change. Something is amiss.

When I check your site, I see both the ?> content, but also that the status code of the request is 500. This suggests that not only do you only see that content, the underlying PHP code also crashed.

One thing you can do is enable error messages. That should give you an actual error message which will probably help in figuring out what’s going on.

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Error messages enabled

Got it. I had a metadata file corrupted. Not sure why this didn’t fix itself when I reloaded my backup but we are good now.

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