[Plugin: Jetpack by WordPress.com] HTTP 500 error—Jetpack not working with fresh installation

Hi guys:

I get the error message, ‘Your website needs to be publicly accessible to use Jetpack: site_inaccessible / Error Details: The Jetpack server was unable to communicate with your site [HTTP 500]. Ask your web host if they allow connections from WordPress.com. If you need further assistance, contact Jetpack Support: https://jetpack.me/support/’.

I have quite a few WordPress installations on the same server but different domains, and they all work fine. AFAIK I have used exactly the same procedure setting this one up as the others.

The xmlrpc.php file is present but when I call it from my web browser, I get a blank page. I see the site so I don’t believe it’s a DNS issue. I registered the domain last Friday and installed WordPress on Saturday.

I have no plug-ins other than Akismet, which I have put my API key in to: this is a fresh installation.

Hope you can point me in the right direction! I have read numerous pages here already (some for earlier versions) but nothing appears to fit my circumstances.

Kind regards,

Jack

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