Fresh Install of WP 2.5 gives Blank Page of domain

  • Resolved deiri87

    (@deiri87)


    16 years, 11 months ago

    I first upgraded my WP from 2.3 to 2.5 and it produced the blank page (no code displayed) on my domain (dareneiri.com). My Admin pages work fine.

    After looking at everyone’s posts, I thought it would be best to just back up and start all over.

    So I backed up my database, created a new database, set everything up, and created a new WP database. WP installed just fine, new databases created, but still same blank page displayed.

    I’m at a point where I’m not sure where to look at anymore. I’m using GoDaddy hosting (Linux) and MySQl 4.1.

    Any suggestions or ideas? TIA!

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  • If you’re seeing a completely blank page, that most likely means that PHP is experiencing fatal errors. The first place I would look is your site’s error logs to see what those errors are and where they originate.

    You might also try re-uploading the core WordPress files, as occasionally when someone sets up WordPress not all of the files get transferred, creating these kinds of errors.

    But since you can browse the admin pages with no difficulty, my guess is that the problem is an errant theme or plugin file.

    or maybe the index.php file has an incorrect entry for the location of wp-blog-header.php?

    Thread Starter deiri87

    (@deiri87)

    I tried to to reupload everything. Still did not load.
    I changed all themes and plug-ins back to default. Still did not load.

    Tried joecwhite’s idea (edited the index.php file) and noticed that the directory for wp-blog-header.php was:
    require('./wp-blog-header.php');
    I changed it to:
    require('wp-blog-header.php');
    and now everything works!!

    There seems to be an issue for other people for permalinks, but I never changed mine ever.

    I hope this helps someone else out there. Thank you again for the responses!

    I just went through a similar problem, but in my case the dreaded blank page did not show up for 2 weeks! And then, my solution was different. For whatever reason, my custom theme was causing the problem. (I tried the solution above but it did not help). I re-uploaded my theme from my private backup and the site showed up again.

    Does anyone know what might cause this? Maybe a hack or a virus? I posted about it on my blog and it would be nice to be able to explain the problem.

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