Jim’s wrong - self-hosting is a self-rewarding thing, even with the occasional hacks (which WordPress.com does suffer every other month or so). Daniel Kirk suffered an attack today, and found a way to repair it. I hate that I wasn’t home because I wish I could have saved him some money.
See, mine was attacked as well. One of the free ways I fix it is through this step.
But the other way, especially in a redirect attack, is to restore your .htaccess file. Restore to a previous day’s file, and then delete the old one.
Free. Simple. And I get to add java and all sorts of stuff to my blog…
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Joel L. Watts holds a Masters of Arts from United Theological Seminary with a focus in literary and rhetorical criticism of the New Testament. His interests include exploring the role of mimesis in human civilization, specifically in the study of religion and media, as well as science fiction and the way in which it has allowed mythology to be explored in light of scientific discoveries of the past century. He is the author of Mimetic Criticism of the Gospel of Mark: Introduction and Commentary (Wipf and Stock, 2013) and a co-editor and contributor to From Fear to Faith: Stories of Hitting Spiritual Walls (Energion, 2013).
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