New install and site is blank

have you chosen a theme and activated it?

Yeah, I’ve tried a couple different ones.

You can view .php pages with no problem, but the index.php pages seem to be giving you trouble. Is your DirectoryIndex setting configured to give preference to index.php over index.html pages?

Not sure, how would I check and change that?

You may find it in settings located in cPanel, or it may be something you will need to add to your .htaccess file.

Search “DirectoryIndex” in your hosts FAQ documents and site management instructions, or contact support at HostGator for assistance with verifying that your site is configured to serve index.php files by default. Seems like it might be something to rule out just to be sure, before doing much more diagnosis.

I tried that. I can access most the pages that I created. But I can’t access the home page. It’s still blank.

I tried that.

I’m not sure what you’re indicating; that you’ve actually confirmed that your site is configured to serve index.php files by default, or that you’ve contacted your hosts support group for assistance..

This displays: nathanrhowe.com/readme.html as does this nathanrhowe.com/wp-login.php

As you can see, pages that are “not” named index.*. seem to display properly – both .html and .php.

The home page is normally displayed by rendering an index.php page. Which so far, still seems to be something your site is still having a problem with.

You can try replacing the default index.php file in the root of your site (and maybe also the one in your active theme) with a fresh copy from the WordPress package, and see if that makes a difference. It’s possible that it might be corrupted/damaged in some way.

If that doesn’t change anything, contact support at HostGator. Maybe they can point out something simple that’s causing the index.php page not to display.

[edit] This seems to work: nathanrhowe.com/about-the-authors/

I’ll try that. Thank you for your help.

The about the authors page and the books page work. Even the empty news and events page works. But the home page doesn’t. It is the only one that doesn’t work.

I did notice that. I don’t think it’s a theme related issue.

Thank you for the help. I got the issue resolved.