All pages show 404, even though I have files in public_html

[edkolis]

I was cleaning up some files on my site and I must have deleted something I shouldn't have, because all of a sudden, any time I try to go to a page on my site, I get a "404 page not found" error - not a regular browser 404 error, but something generated server side, because the font is different and there's no explanation of what a 404 means. If I go to my site's home page via https instead of http, I get a different message: "Apache is functioning normally". What can I do to fix this? Thanks!

 

[werschreibt]

What can I do to fix this?

Does any URL work?
How about just restoring from trashcan or your backup?

 

[edkolis]

No, no URLs on my site work anymore. I do have a local copy of the files, but that doesn't include some symbolic links that I deleted that were pointing at public_html. I thought those were not needed, and I didn't think to write down their names before deleting them. They had names like 123456.public_html but the 123456 was a random string of numbers and maybe also letters. I don't know why these shortcuts would be necessary for my site to run but I'm guessing by deleting them I broke it somehow. If there was some way to look up what they're supposed to be, I could put them back. But I've never heard of web hosts needing several randomly named links pointing at the web root to work...

 

[edkolis]

I'm thinking, if I had a way to reset my FTP to its default state, with whatever symbolic links need to be set up being created again, I could just upload all my files again and it should work.

 

[Anna]

Your site works just fine as long as you do NOT use https (regular http works fine), this would be due to SSL not being enabled on the account, I have however now enabled it for the account.
To get SSL fully functional you need to enable it for the domain under domain setup and also obtain a SSL certificate, you can get one free through DirectAdmin under SSL Management.

 

[edkolis]

Oh, thank you! I just noticed that I now have access to the SSL configuration, and now my site is working. Thanks again!