Blank home page

  • Help! I am new to this blogging thing, and PHP in general, so I’m having a difficult time troubleshooting my issues.

    My home page is blank. I can use the administrative screens to add and remove and edit blogs and pages, change themes, etc., but when I view my site, there is nothing there. The source for the page shows up as this:

    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC “-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN”>
    <HTML><HEAD>
    <META http-equiv=Content-Type content=”text/html; charset=windows-1252″></HEAD>
    <BODY></BODY></HTML>

    I am using WP 2.0 with MySQL hosted on GearHost. I know it can be done, as a friend of mine has the same setup (he is unfortunately out of town for the next couple days, so I’d like to get it running as soon as possible).

    Any help would be greatly appreciated. Not that you’re going to see much, but you can view my “site” at https://www.vbandjay.com.

    Thank you very much.
    Jay Taplin

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  • If you can access the admin panel, try to go Presentation > and select/activate a theme.

    Thread Starter jaytaplin1

    (@jaytaplin1)

    Thank you for your idea, but I have already tried changing themes several times. I just tried again, but with no luck. Any other thoughts? Is there an “activate site” button, or something necessary to get the site online that I have just overlooked? The steps I took to make this happen were:

    1) Created a site on gearhost.com
    2) Modified the config file with the proper database settings.
    3) Uploaded all the files (using filezilla) to the web site.
    4) Activated the site using the install.php.
    5) Followed the instructions.
    6) Logged into the admin part of the site.
    7) Created a couple of blogs, published.
    8) Viewed the site – no luck
    9) Changed themes, viewed again – no luck.

    I can always get help when the guy I know gets back in town, but I was hoping to get it up before that. In either case I’ll post what the solution is in order to help out anyone else that comes across this.

    Thank you,
    Jay Taplin

    Thread Starter jaytaplin1

    (@jaytaplin1)

    Aha! It was a security setting on my site. I needed to enable anonymous read access. Thanks to moshu and anyone else who even thought about helping!

    Jay Taplin

    I’m having the same problem with WP 2.0… shows a blank home page. Have been going through the forums for the past two hours… still haven’t managed to figuire it out.. tried the above but it didn’t work.

    Got the same problem. For weeks my wordpress weblog worked. And now, only once a week. The rest of the day….a blank page:

    https://ifolio.idfact.net/

    By the way jaytaplin1, your site looks fine to me.

    Have installed WP 2.0 and can access Dashboard, write, manage etc. Have also successfully imported posts from anothe blog.

    But my Home page is blank and not showing under my domain name.
    The source code shows as
    <?php
    /* Short and sweet */
    define(‘WP_USE_THEMES’, true);
    require(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
    ?>

    I’d really appreciate any help.

    thanks

    One more here… i can admin the site no problem but when i view the site comes up blank. Viewing the source comes up with the same result as ‘rolla’ above.

    I’ve cleared the cache on the server… no luck.
    I’ve cleared the cache in my browsers (camino/safari)… no luck
    I’ve optimised the DB… no luck
    My gallery2 plugin (wp-gallery2.php) brings up blank screen

    Direct access to gallery2 is NO problem at all!

    I’m using wordpress 2.0.1.

    Btw.. I’ts been up and running nicely for the last few weeks!!!

    HELP!

    I have the same problem going on at the weblog I’m trying to install now for a nonprofit (https://www.racinefamilyclub.org). I’ve never had this happen with my personal blog, so I’m at a loss…help?

    @all but CarrieR: Please list ALL active plugins.

    CarrieR – have you checked that all files are correctly uploaded?

    You excused me, but I’ll reply anyway: no plugins of any sort yet. ??

    All the files appear to have been uploaded correctly, or at least the same way I’ve done them in the past with no problems. The administration areas appear to be working fine and dandy, too. The only difference I can see here between this instance and those in the past is that this host is a Windows machine, and I’ve only installed to Unix hosts before…I’m not sure for what to check, though.

    (Crappy host won’t even tell me what versions of PHP or MySQL are running (I didn’t buy the hosting, so I’m just scrambling to catch up on that end). All appears to be working other than the blank index page, though, so I’m thinking it’s probably not an incompatibility issue…)

    My problem is solved. It was the provider who had problems.

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