Semantically driven

  • Home
  • About
    • Privacy policy
    • Archives
      • Reviews & Giveaways
  • Photography
    • Project 365
  • Contact me
You are here: Home / Web/Tech / Blog disappeared

Blog disappeared

April 13, 2009 by Jen

Thanks to one of my gorgeous readers – Jeanie – I found out that my blog had all but disappeared. Any page I tried to view gave me a 404 page error. Everything else was there, just no content.  She emailed me first thing this morning and I didn’t read it until I got back from my mini Easter break this afternoon.

I immediately panicked and wondered when the last time I did a backup was – too long ago I’m sure. Once my little panic was over I thought I’d better fix it.

Knowing that WordPress runs from databases I logged into my blog’s Cpanel and went to view the post database to see what was there. A message informed me that I had a “WordPress MySQL database error: Table is marked as crashed and should be repaired.”

After doing a quick search I came across this very helpful post, and within a minute had repaired my database and was back in business. So if this ever happens to you, it’s probably a database error. I’m thankful that it wasn’t someone hacking in which has happened to me before too.

Naturally I’ve now done a backup. I was imagining having to manually redo my last few week’s worth of posts since my last backup but it’s all sorted.

Submit to StumbleUponShare on Tumblr Share

Filed Under: Web/Tech Tagged With: blog posts gone, database, mysql, wordpress

« Happy Easter
Blog bits and bobs »

Comments

  1. Michelle says

    April 13, 2009 at 10:43 pm

    Whew.. I noticed that yesterday but I thought maybe you were just doing an update or something. Glad to see it wasn’t a disaster!

  2. jeanie says

    April 14, 2009 at 5:10 am

    Oh, just caught up on the last 3 posts as a result of that – yay (that is more my side of the fence than yours!).

    Eeek on chocolate eating cockies – mind you, when a rabid hippie and making eco-friendly cockroach baits, one of the main ingredients was cocoa – beggars love it!

  3. Kikolani says

    April 14, 2009 at 6:16 am

    Yipes… that is scary. Thank goodness you found the fix quickly. I have an automatic database update, but I need to backup my files as well, in case. Thanks for the reminder and sharing your experience.

    ~ Kristi

  4. Jen says

    April 14, 2009 at 10:28 am

    Michelle, I too am glad that it wasn’t a disaster.

  5. Jen says

    April 14, 2009 at 10:29 am

    Kristi, Yes, I need to investigate the automatic database update.

  6. Jayne says

    April 14, 2009 at 11:34 am

    Thank goodness you were able to save it 🙂

  7. PlanningQueen says

    April 14, 2009 at 10:24 pm

    Hope you had a nice mini break. Glad you could fix the blog with not too much drama.

  8. M & B says

    April 15, 2009 at 3:04 am

    Welcome back!

  9. rhubarb says

    April 15, 2009 at 10:57 am

    WordPress has been giving me the irrits of late, and another recent change gave me a new frown line. Glad you are up and running again OK!

Popular posts

  • Things I love about him (8)
  • All consuming heat
  • Learning to read while sleeping?
  • The golden age of parenting
  • Anti-climax
  • Life goes in in Big Brother
  • Talking the talk
  • Savouring the season(s)
  • Sore knees
  • Mothering on

Looking for something?

Categories

My photos

Copyright © 2023 · Beautiful Pro Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in