It appears that my MODX has crashed

Hi all,

This afternoon I noticed I had no clicks on my adsense website, and when I tried to open it in a browser, I discovered that get a blank screen for any page I try to access. When I tried to access the manager, I get this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/mywebsite/public_html/assets/cache/siteCache.idx.php on line 1087

Is this a commonly seen thing? I’m running 1.0.5. I was just hoping for any suggestions from the knowledgeable folks here before I start monkeying with it.

Thanks!

Cris

Try renaming the siteCache.idx.php and report back. MODX should regenerate that file

Thank you cipa. That worked perfectly!

You might want to keep an eye on that; since that file is necessarily writable the corruption may have been because somebody (or some script) was trying to hack it. There have been a few cases of somebody’s FTP account being compromised and their files being hacked to add spam links and redirects. There have also been a couple of cases of shared hosting servers being compromised causing similar site hacking attempts.

This is weird! Today I tried to create a new page, but when I tried the New Resource tab, I got this error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/mywebsite/public_html/assets/plugins/qm/qm.inc.php on line 140

Should I just reinstall modx? This is sort of freaking me out.

- Cris

Hi Susan,

It appears that you were correct. On viewing both of the files, I found the following line in my (old) SiteCacheIndex.php file:

<title>[(site_name)] | [*pagetitle*]</title><link rel=’canonical’ href=’http://jmplus.net/jJkACiPy’ />

And in my qm.inc.php file I found:

<title></title><link rel=’canonical’ href=’http://jmplus.net/ebq9Gm3D’ />

What would be the prudent next step? Any assistance appreciated!

- Cris