I have nothing that “auto updates”, and I’m very careful about what’s going into it.
I spent all saturday and sunday re-setting up the site again and it worked flawlessly.
Come monday morning I get
” There has been a critical error on this website. ”
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always… I don’t know what to do anymore, I don’t even know how to troubleshoot this or where to look, I admidt I’m a bit of a noob here, but like.. I don’t understand what happens. It’s not always overnight, I built it a week ago and in an hour it stopped.
I also am using strong passwords, have fail2ban, etc. running.
example length/style of passwords:
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I’m not asking for someone to come in and solve this, but I am asking for help on how to figure this out and prevent it so I learn, as of right now wordpress seems super unstable to me and I know it’s not.
note: hosted on bare metal, I have one subdomain on it with nextcloud hosted and NEVER have nextcloud issues.
How did you try to troubleshoot your website ?`what did you do ? Need more info , and write url
Enable debugging so you actually see the error.
What php version are you running?
Is everything on the site updated (wordpress, plugins, themes, php). Start there.
Critical errors for me are usually caused by plugins or maybe themes.
Did the site not send an email to your admin email address? You can usually see what is causing the problem from that. Otherwise enable debugging to see.
Then you can just delete the offending plugin and reinstall.
If not you could try this workaround:
Rename the plugin folder (append _test to the end or something) via FTP. Refresh.
Does this solve it? If yes – rename it back and then start renaming plugins one by one and refresh to figure out exactly which one is causing the problem. Then delete and reinstall.
If not plugins, maybe try a different theme. Does that solve it? Then maybe delete the theme and reinstall.
Turn on PHP debug and see what the issue is