Blank main site after upgrade to 2.5.1

  • Resolved cynaes

    (@cynaes)


    16 years, 10 months ago

    Last week I upgraded from 2.5 to 2.5.1 … after I was done uploading all files, I continued to run the usual database upgrade – which somehow doesn’t work. I get to /wp-admin/upgrade.php just fine, but after clicking on Upgrade WordPress, I get to a page that is empty except for the WordPress header …

    <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "https://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="https://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" dir="ltr">
<head>
	<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8" />
	<title>WordPress &rsaquo; Upgrade</title>
	<link rel='stylesheet' href='./css/install.css?version=2.5.1' type='text/css' />
</head>
<body>
<h1 id="logo"><img alt="WordPress" src="images/wordpress-logo.png" /></h1>

    That’s all I get. When I access the blog’s main page it’s empty. And by that I mean really empty, because there is no source code at all. I’ve tried to reupload all changed files, in case something went wrong while uploading, but the result is still the same.

    I got a bit upset after that, and since I’m generally out on weekends, I left it for good. Today I got reminded of my blog’s sad state when I received my weekly database update by mail. I guess things are still running in the background … now I want to avoied a complete reinstall if possible, and I’d be very happy if anyone had any idea what’s going wrong with my blog.

    Thanks in advance for any help!

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  • Can you login at https://www.emphyrio.net/wp-login.php and successfully navigate the admin menus? If so, what happens when you switch to the WordPress Default 1.6 theme.

    Were all plugins deactivated before the upgrade?

    Did you consider deleting the WordPress files, then reuploading, per Steps 7 and 8 in Upgrading_WordPress_Extended?

    Thread Starter cynaes

    (@cynaes)

    If I log in, I get automatically redirected to the upgrade-page.

    I’ll have to shamefully admit that I didn’t deactive all plugins, because I was in a hurry (I know, bad excuse, but that’s how things go). However, I’m not running too many plugins, only Hello Dolly, Backup (the one included in the standard WP download), Akismet, the WordPress Gallery 2 Plugin (WPG2) & something called wp-quotes, which is an additional database table that displays random quotes on my main page.

    Deleting & Uploading as per Upgrade Guide unfortunately leads to the same results.

    Thread Starter cynaes

    (@cynaes)

    fyi: I managed to resolve the issue by deleting the plugin folder. After that the update went smooth. I deactivated all plugins, re-uploaded my plugin folder and activated them one by one – turns out it was a problem with the WPG2-plugin. Thankfully it’s already been updated by now, and everything is running again.

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