Where is my article?

[franciccio-ITALIANO]

Hi,

when I go in folder "site", by ftp, i see 3 folders: "assets", "modules", "templates", and one file: "config.php".
I search my articles, with html and all words, with title of these. 
Can I find it by ftp?
My site is broken and I can't see and cut-copy my article by frontend!

 

 

[abdus]

All your articles are stored in the database. You won't be able to find them in anywhere inside site directory, with or without FTP. You have to login to MySQL through cPanel or by other means to see your articles.

How is it broken, are you getting any errors? Can you copy paste / post a screenshot of the error?

[szabesz]

11 hours ago, abdus said:

All your articles are stored in the database.

Generally speaking it is true, however, he might be able to recover the pages from either of these too:

• /site/assets/cache/FileCompiler/site/templates/ (code only....)
• or a search engine cache if any

Sure, these are last resort options. I would stick to a backup instead and/or try to fix the site...

Edited May 4, 2017 by szabesz

[abdus]

Page cache under /site/assets/cache/Page might help as well, but it has to be there in the first place.

Running a php script to backup the DB & force download the resulting sql file can help. Of course, this assumes that the DB is accessible using the credentials in config.php

[franciccio-ITALIANO]

Thanks!
In my site the database has disappeared, so I have to manually retrieve all the files. Now I know I can not retrieve any files, except from the cache. But the articles I had written were NOT PUBLISHED!
They were written but I could only see them.
Does the cache also store those?

[SamC]

On 2017-5-5 at 3:54 PM, franciccio-ITALIANO said:

Thanks!
In my site the database has disappeared

Where is it? Does the config file 100% point to the correct database (wherever it is) and the login credentials are correct? Or does you host have a backup of the database?

 

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