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SSH'd into Wordpress Droplet a 2nd time and now Wordpress website isn't working

Posted on September 21, 2019

Hi there,

I went through the process of setting up my Wordpress website using the official 18.04 wordpress image. I was able to log into my droplet which activated the script /opt/digitalocean/wp_setup.sh

It said “This setup requires a domain name. If you do not have one yet, you may cancel this setup, press Ctrl+C. This script will run again on your next login”

I skipped this and proceeded with the rest of my setup. Everything worked great and I was able to set an admin password and login to the http://my_website_name.com/wp-admin/install.php

I decided to login to my droplet via SSH today and I was prompted with the same script (/opt/digitalocean/wp_setup.sh) and I canceled it again. However, this time I noticed the following message:

mv: cannot stat '/var/www/html': No such file or directory mv: cannot stat '/var/www/wordpress': No such file or directory

When I went to my website it was down and I can’t get it back up.

I tried restart apache but I believe that the script running a second time may have messed something up, particularly these lines in the script:

mv /var/www/html /var/www/html.old mv /var/www/wordpress /var/www/html

Any advice?

Thank you.

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