Blank plugins page (wp-admin/plugins.php) in Site Admin

  • My plugins page suddenly turned up completely blank. WP runs on a Fedora box I have full access to, and there are no odd messages in neither the access nor the error log of Apache.

    The blog front on www2.skiforeningen.no appears to be ok and all the other parts of the Admin panel work as before.

    How should I go along debug this? Since I have file system access, I could probably run PHP on the file? Or? I am not a PHP hacker.

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  • Did you recently add a plugin or do a mod?
    If so, delete or deactivate the plugin and check. Also, it could be conflicting with a plugin already installed.

    Also make sure there’s no an empty index.php or index.html file in there…

    Thread Starter skibohemen

    (@skibohemen)

    I did not add any plugins recently, I have only a few installed. And there is no empty index.php or index.html.

    More strange, the HTTP GET request for /wp-admin/plugins.php never even shows up in the access_log or error_log of Apache! I have reloaded the page numerous times, emptied the browser caches and even tried different browsers.

    I also ran a “diff” on the installed plugins.php and plugins.php in the 2.1.3 dist. There were no differences, but just to make sure, I copied the file in again from the distribution. Did not help.

    To see more under the hood of the browser, I accessed the file through the Unix command line browser “lynx”. The browser reports “Unexepected network error” when I try to access the file.

    I also made a copy of the file with a different name and accessed it as “foo.php”. No help.

    I am really stuck here.

    There’s been an outbreak of blank, or partly blank admin pages, including:

    options-reading.php
    plugins.php

    Thread Starter skibohemen

    (@skibohemen)

    Yes, after some searching I see that others complain about misc admin pages turning up blank, not only the wp-admin/plugins.php. But I can’t seem to find a general solution to this fuzz.

    As someone suggested, renaming the plugins directory made the page appear with its default content. However, renaming back again just reintroduced the problem.

    So I did something else, I completely cleaned the content of the wp-content/plugins directory. Now the page appeared with default content.

    Then I installed hello.php from the 2.1.3 distribution. Now the page turned blank again!

    My conclusion is that the plugins.php exits whenever there is any type of PHP content beneath the plugins directory.

    So why is this happening to me now, and why has it happened to others?

    All files and directories are chmod-ed to 755/644 respectively, group ownership set to the same as the httpd process (“apache”).

    Btw, the plugins editor is able to run and pick up the files when accessed directly.

    Anyone who knows the plugins.php code who can think of any reason for this strange behaviour?

    I had the same problem … In my case it was adhesive.php that once deleted allowed my plugins page to reappear.

    Interestingly nothing had changed in my blog software for 2-3 weeks.

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