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ive tried looking for the answer to this but haven't had any luck. A few days ago our Magento store suddenly stopped working and comes up with a blank white screen no matter what page we try to access, frontend or backend. I managed to find some info in the error log which is repeating this error:

[01-Sep-2014 10:27:28 Europe/London] PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected ''*#fubfsdXk5%x5c%x78644f6~6<&w' (T_ENCAPSED_AND_WHITESPACE) in /home/grippcou/public_html/index.php on line 1

Does anyone have any idea on how to fix this?

Thanks Chris

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Show the code please – John Robertson Sep 1 '14 at 9:44
    
possible duplicate of Reference - What does this error mean in PHP? – Num6 Sep 1 '14 at 9:45
    
Hi John, the file its referencing is the default index page for our Magento install which contains the blowfish password so cant really paste it, not much help i know! I had a look at the link HAL9000 but the error on there assumes the code is wrong when the site has been running fine for months. I havent changed anything on the site in weeks. I had a look at the FTP logs and no one else has accessed it either. – Chris Sep 1 '14 at 9:50
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Turns out the index file was corrupted somehow! Going to have to look through logs now.

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