- To restore files using Server Rewind, follow these steps:
- Log in to cPanel.
- If you do not know how to log in to your cPanel account, please see this article.
- In the FILES section of the cPanel home screen, click Server Rewind:
- cPanel – Server Rewind icon
- Select the date that contains the version of the file or files that you want to restore. To expand a date, click the + icon.
- Navigate to the file or files that you want to restore. To expand a directory, click the + icon. You can select an entire directory, or specific files to restore.
- Under Options, select the Overwrite existing files check box to overwrite existing files with the restored files.
- Click restore!
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Note: I enabled display PHP errors under the PHP selector in cPanel and this allowed the site to display the actual errors instead of the generic 500 error message.