Server not showing the right file on webpage - wordpress

I am testing/learning how to send info from a Gravity form to a test file on my website.
I am using a testfile.txt that I added in var/www/ which is the location of the Wordpress directory.
The command I am running updates that file and I am able to see its contents when i go to the domain: mywebsite.com/testfile.txt.
The first time I run the Gravity form, I can see the changes on the webpage. However, after updating its contents to something else, the webpage does not update despite reloading it.
To troubleshoot this, I SSH'd into the server to see if the file was being updated and indeed it was...
So, basically, the file is being updated on the server but not on my GoDaddy domain... Has anybody encountered a problem like this? And if so does anyone have a solution?

I am no Expert in this field, Beginner to be honest. When I was learning Python flask a framework for building website, I had similar issue. Maybe the problem is that, when you visit your website it loads from the cache. To solve that press 'ctrl + F5', it forces a cache refresh, and will guarantee that IF the content is changed, you will get the new content. Again, I am beginner myself.

As #Sadman said, whenever I don't see my content getting updated I do a hard refresh or delete the cookies and cache manually. Either one of these solved my problem. To make a hard refresh press ctrl+shift+r or ctrl+f5 or shift+f5 on windows. On MAC this is cmd+R. I hope this helps!

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Codekit 3 - External Server Issue

I've been using codekit for ages now, and now I've been using the version 3 since it came out.
I really like this app, but there's something I never really understood and I decided to post it here (hoping to finally understand how this works and how to make it works like I want).
I have MAMP pro installed, with some hosts.
Let's say I have this list of hosts with (fake) document root:
localhost -> documents/site1/dist
test -> documents/sitetest/dist
and let's assume that test is a wordpress site having the site url set to
http://test/ in the database.
In codekit, when I enable the browser refresh, the bottom options asks me to write down the address I would visit to see my website.
Now, if I navigate to http://test/ my WordPress website loads and I am able to see everything.
In codekit I then setup the browser refreshing options to be the following:
Animation: ticked
Refresh Delay: 0.0 seconds (default)
Preview: empty
Document-Root Subpath: empty
External Server Required: on
External Server Address: http://test/
Then when I click on the green dot (server) to preview my website, I'm expecting codekit to navigate to http://test:5757 and to properly display my website. This, unfortunately, is not the case. When I click on the preview (or server, it doesn't really make any difference for me) codekit navigates to my mac IP and the website is either not loading or loading without any external resource.
I don't think the issue is in the way I load the resource in WordPress (i use enqueue sources properly, and the website without using codekit refresh function works, load and displays as meant to).
So far, I always switched my current project to use the localhost host (changing the document root in MAMP pro) and then telling codekit to use the localhost ip as external server, but now it's a bit more complex, as I have way more projects and I was hoping not to change back and forth the document root to use codekit built in refreshing feature.
Is it possible? am I missing something here?
I read all I was able to find as well as watched the videos on codekit, but this bit here is still a bit unknown to me and any help would be really appreciated.
Thanks
PS: No need to mention I am on a MAC, right? :)
I don't believe I actually managed to fix this.
I'll leave the answer here in case somebody else is facing the same issue.
The problem I had was that my website http://test/ was using a theme called test.
Codekit, for refreshing the browser, uses a simple string search and replace in the URL, and so everything that looked like "test" in the url was replaced by the internal ip.
Quick example:
http://test/wp-content/themes/test/index.php
became
http://192.168.0.1:5757/wp-content/themes/192.168.0.1:5757/index.php
and of course no file where loaded successfully, as the path was wrong.
To fix this?
Just change the MAMP pro address to something that won't be present in the URL (in my case, the MAMP pro host called test became dev.test and problem solved.

Wordpress freezes when accessing the backend

It's been a while now that i'm using Wordpress; and I know it quite well.
But this time, I've got a problem I've never seen :
My website freezes as soon as I try to go to the backend.
The frontend works, but when I go to /wp-admin, it stops working and eventually fires a "ERR_CONNECTION_TIMED_OUT" error.
Then the whole website (and FTP) is then down for about 5 minutes, then it comes back.
I don't know what as been changed since last time it worked.
Here's what I did try so far :
override my Wordpress folder with a fresh install
disable plugins (renamed wp-content/plugins to wp-content/pluginsOLD)
disable current theme (renamed wp-content/themes/my-theme to wp-content/themes/my-themeOLD)
edited wp-config.php file to enable debugging with WP_DEBUG, WP_DEBUG_LOG and SAVEQUERIES set to true; no debug.log is generated.
I also considered a server issue and waited for about 24hours. But my other websites (which are hosted on the same place) just work fine.
Any ideas about this ? I'm getting mad :)
My host had blacklisted my IP, that's why I wasn't able to access it.
I guess each time I was trying to access the backend, they did freeze my website to avoid an attack or something.
Well, this may be interesting for others. If I had knew it, I would have change my IP... :/

My site got hacked and he left behind an encrypted filed

This morning I logged onto my website and shockingly I found that it just spit out error messages and some kind of upload form was displayed. A form that basically uploads a file onto my server.
I logged into my server and had a look at the access log. It seems he accessed the function file of my wordpress theme, fully deleted the original and created an upload form out of it.
With that upload form he then uploaded the following file.
Edit: I had to copy the code to hastebin, it was too big to be posted here.
http://hastebin.com/itedinefiz.php
He named the file web-info.php. I did not run the file because I am afraid that it might do some harmful things to my site.
Could anyone tell me what this file does?
Anyway, I have restored the functions.php file of my wordpress theme and deleted that web-info.php file form the server and now it seems that the website is running again.
Oh and my guess he gained access to my website because my login credentials were very easy... very stupid of me :(
After doing a bit research this what I came up with.
The malicious file that I have posted above, was encoded using eval(gzinflate(base64_decode));
Thanks to http://ddecode.com/phpdecoder/ I was able to decoded it, here is the raw PHP file that the hacker left behind:
http://pastebin.com/fAEQn2j7
I ran the file on my local machine, holy crap! It's a full on rootkit. It has massive interface that covers pretty much anything to take over the entire server. It seems to let you browser the entire files on the server, run sql code, run php code, brutforce options, network option and so on.
I think the safest it to cancel the entire VPS that I am renting from Bluehost, a normal wordpress deinstallation won't do any good.

Edits in .asp net website wont show

i've got an issue with website made in asp.net. A site is published and online, i've made some modifications, republished site on my computer and just uploaded a .aspx file into the server via ftp.
First time it seems to have worked after a while. But i've made a small error and want to edit it again, i did the same, but it wont change. Could it be that i need to wait some time before changes are seen? Or could it be that there needs to be a server restart or something?
If you've edited something in the aspx.cs page you will need to upload the bin directory to the remote site, or better still republish the whole site.
If it is a change to the .aspx, css or javasctipt file, the original will most likely be cached in your browser. Try a differrent browser brand or refreshing the page, ctrl-f5 does a complete refresh.
If this error was by any chance a CSS mistake, that can be easily fixed by adding a "?" at the end of the address since CSS files are normally stored in the cache of the browser and the ? tells the browser to update them. Same thing is true about JavaScripts which are kept in individual files
I'd recommend you to use the Visual Studio Publish Website under the Build instead of manually uploading the site over FTP. That built in publisher provides you many advantages of which one of them is the same issue you have faced. When you make a small change, fixing the error in host would be very faster by republishing the site that way rather than manually upping it over FTP.

upload image displays an error under drupal 6

A site have run ok for some time. But recently, when I upload a image, it is always raising this error:
An unrecoverable error occurred. This form was missing from the server cache. Try reloading the page and submitting again.
The first time i uploaded the image is ok. but when I create the second article and upload a image, it shows the above error. And the upload button disappeared.
Does anyone konw how to correct it and what's the reason of this error emergence ?
Apparently the problem is not Drupal. Most likely a setting on the server. If you use hosting services. please contact support, they may be something advise. Also recommend looking into the FAQ page the module loads the image coordinates.
Also, to test this problem, try to move the website to your local kompyuter and test does not appear whether this problem. Good luck. And update all the modules before actual sosoyaniya. Poeksprimentiruyte module load module dev.
Some other users have had the same sort of issue. See this thread on Drupal.org and this question at Drupal Answers.
Try to disabling caching under admin/settings/performance and set minimum lifetime to none. Also try clearing the caches on your site and in your browser and try again.
The problem is in cache_get() function inside includes/cache.inc file.
At line no. 42, there is a check :
if (isset($user->cache) && $user->cache > $cache->created)
Time of user cache, is always coming as bigger than cache's creation time. That is why, this function returning zero and file is not uploaded.
However I could not find the solution yet.

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