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I'm having a problem with a new site where a couple of pages are randomly disappearing every night and when you go to access them you get the couch admin login. The pages are still there as shown by FTP just not accessible by users.

It's happened three times now and each time I've deleted pages via FTP, removed templates from Couch, and then reloaded them via FTP again. Initially just the couple of affected pages and last time a total reload of the site. Totally frustrating as all of the images then have to be individually placed via Couch again.

Every thing will then appear fine during the day and then the same thing happens again overnight but with different pages (last time with index.php which obviously has the biggest impact on the client).

The only difference between the old Couch site and the new one replacing it is the placing of images within editable areas and using a Galleria slideshow (again within Couch edit area). Apart from that a very simple brochure type static design using HTML5 CSS3.

Image are using <cms:editable name='prop_image' label='Image' desc='Upload or change photo' hidden='1' show_preview='1' preview_width='350' type='image' />
<img src="<cms:show prop_image />" height="350" width="966" alt="" />

or

<div class="galleria">
<cms:editable name='slides' css='removed.css' body_class='galleria' type='richtext'>

</cms:editable>
</div> <!-- /galleria -->
Above being placed via the image icon on CKeditor one by one. Resulting code is fine when doing view source from pages.

The site itself has had zero problems running on the standalone Couch 1.4 system on my PC. Hosting site is on Couch 1.3. PHP 5.2

Any pointers to things that could be causing this? I suppose removing all Couch edit areas from the images and going back to defining them in the HTML would narrow it down as to whether it's this change which is the cause.

If not that should I be looking at deleting everything from the server including the database and starting totally from scratch with a blank slate? Although I am also wondering if the hosting company is having problems and rolling back to previous days backups with this only occuring overnight.
Hi,

That is a very strange problem. Must say, I haven't come across anything like this before.

The first thing that crossed my mind was that it could be database issue.

The next time you come across this issue, please do not make any rectifications. Please send me the FTP + Couch + phpMyAdmin access creds and I'll try to find the exact reason.

In the meanwhile, I think you should upgrade the site to 1.4.

Thanks.
Thanks KK.
The problem has not re-occurred so I suspect even more the cause was something going on at the hosting company.
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