All pages in site periodically come up blank

  • Resolved celebitchy

    (@celebitchy)


    18 years, 1 month ago

    All pages in my site, including the admin section, are periodically coming up blank.

    https://www.celebitchy.com

    Some times the main page will appear blank, but reappear on a page re-load. Other times the entire WordPress site including the admin section is rendered blank and does not reappear until the server is rebooted.

    If I am working in the admin section when it happens the browser will prompt me to download post.php when I try to save a post.

    I know this is a WordPress or PHP issue because the server is up and running fine when this happens, and non-Wordpress pages still appear without a problem.

    There are two recent plugins which could be causing this problem, but both have been deactivated and it is still happening: wp-cache, and sociable

    I deactivated sociable and deleted it.

    I read that wp-cache can cause blank pages with PHP 5, and I applied the fix listed here:
    https://www.bloggingblog.net/wp-cache-and-the-blank-page-problem/

    The site is running PHP 4.4.2, though, so I’m not sure if that’s the issue.

    That didn’t seem to fix the problem so I deactivated wp-cache yesterday but did not delete it.

    The blank pages are still coming up periodically.

    My question is: could wp-cache still be causing the problem even though it is deactivated? Should I delete it entirely and/or is there a cache it creates somewhere that I should delete too?

    Is there a different potential culprit?

    Thanks for your help with this, and I hope this is the right place to ask.

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  • Hello Celebitchy, what version of WordPress are you using? Can you please use version 2.0.4?

    Thread Starter celebitchy

    (@celebitchy)

    It says 2.0.4 at the bottom of the main admin page, so that must be the version I’m using.

    Thread Starter celebitchy

    (@celebitchy)

    Someone at my hosting company installed wp-cache for me, and I just realized that I had never successfully applied the fix because I did not have permission rights to overwrite the file.

    I read on another thread that wp-cache can cause these problems even when it’s deactivated, so I’ve added the fix for now and hope that solves it. I’ll close this issue, and thanks for your help.

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