Trying to log in to my wordpress blog and I get a blank screen

My guess is that something happened with your .htaccess and permalinks. If you go to https://chemicalscream.net/wp-login.php/ your login page is there, however once the trailing slash is removed on the end https://chemicalscream.net/wp-login.php site’s not there, blank page.

Completely the same with your blog:

https://chemicalscream.net/about-2/ there and https://chemicalscream.net/about-2 unavailable. If you can use FTP, login to your site and rename .htaccess file to i.e. .htaccess.hold once this is done login as usual, go to your Settings > Permalinks and set new structure.

If you don’t have an FTP contact your hosting provider and ask them to help you with .htaccess file.

Thanks, Emil. I tried that and it still gave me a blank screen. ??

OK, let’s try that again.

Can you FTP to your server and open your .htaccess. To open the .htaccess you can use any plain text editor such as Notepad and see if your settings are like this:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteRule ^index\.php$ - [L]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress

This is what my .htaccess says:

# BEGIN WordPress
<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine On
RewriteBase /
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule . /index.php [L]
</IfModule>

# END WordPress