[wp-testers] Corrupted Database

[Carl Peterson]

On Sep 4, 2007, at 8:13 PM, Jeremy Visser wrote:

> Gene Steinberg wrote:
>> Only the header on www.macnightowl.com would display.
>>
>> There were no changes in site content during this period.
>>
>> When you viewed source in the browser it looked fine. The solution  
>> was
>> to restore the previous version of the database (the one I backed up
>> prior to the installation), go back to WP 2.2.2 and it worked fine.
>
> This does not (necessarily) mean the database was bombed.
>
> The reason for the header only displaying would be because a PHP error
> occurred somewhere between the header and the footer, making PHP  
> the one
> that bombed out.
>
> Because PHP errors are most likely not displayed publicly on your
> server, check your web server error log to see if PHP output any  
> errors
> in there. (If you run your own server, make sure the 'error_log' PHP
> setting is 'On'.)

Ditto. This may seem obvious, but make sure you aren't running any  
plugins. That's often the real culprit. Usually, databases don't  
"just bomb."