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Hi,

I got my blog running for about a month now, and everything worked really fine, until today I think I don't know exactly, if it worked fine before, because I didn't looked at it for a week or so.

The problem is, that I still can see, the blog, and the short texts on the main page of the blog, but if I want to read more about a post I get an error message, that the requested side wasn't found. This is absolutely correct, because my "archives" folder is very very empty!!! The folder "entries" is also gone I think

It is possible, that a friend of mine, has deleted them, because she has the ftp password, to upload, some Images, but she swears, that she didn't touch anything. So I will believe her

The only thing I changed, was to secure my "ser" folder by htaccess today, and I think, that after that my blog didn't work anymore, I removed the htaccess protection but it doesn't work now as well. Is it possible, that the crash was caused by this?

The htaccess protection is a feature given from my hoster. You can chose the folder, that has to be protected an two files, a .htpasswd an .htaccess are created, as usual, but I supose, they could have overwritten the original ones, that allready existed in the main ser folder. Is that possible?

Can I get my post again???? Please

The "archives" folder is always empty, since the Data comes from the Database. The folder is only there to allow URL pretty-rewriting.

However you most surely screwed up the block by securing your site. Serendipity keeps vital information in .htaccess and you shouldn't touch those core parts. So you need to edit the .htaccess file, and not just overwrite it.

I suggest you to go to Serendipity Configuration, change URL rewriting to "NONE" and then you can do with your .htaccess whatever you want. Or if you want to keep "pretty URLs", reset it to "Apache Errorhandling" after that, and the .htaccess file will be created new. And then you can edit the file with the contents of your security information.

Regards,
Garvin