front end not appearing

I’m picking up on a project where the previous person left off where there is a highly customized wordpress install. The site is a developement site called (W) where we do testing before rolling out features to the public site.

The problem is that the subdomain https://W.emazzanti.net does not render the wordpress installation. It just shows a blank page. However the database exists and I can login at this location https://W.emazzanti.net/core/wp-login.php. If you go there you’ll see the login screen. And when I login I can see that all the pages and posts and plugins and everything exist. But if I’m in the dashboard and open the editor for one of those posts or pages and click “View Page” I just get a blank page, much like the blank homepage at https://W.emazzanti.net.

The strange thing is that the server IS properly resolving. I uploaded at test file which is visible at https://w.emazzanti.net/testA.jpg. And we can see https://w.emazzanti.net/core/license.txt. So again, the server IS resolving.

I was told it might be due to an open_basedir restriction. So I uploaded a vhost.conf file with this code in it:
php_admin_value open_basedir “none”
but that did not resolve the issue.

any ideas? please advise. thanks in advance!