When loading website, get white screen no image, no front page.

look in the apache error.log to see if any errors are showing.

Hello again Jon,

Well, I get a bit confused in the way you use it now.
Which HDD for which website or all to same website? (HDD/Sata is not the issue I guess).

I just get confused when you explain, you switch 3 websites into one. (I’m a bit dumb).

I will try to help, whatever,

Again, this white screen is more probably caused by a wrong .htaccess / wp-config.php. Try to check both please.

Also chmod rights are indeed important, like juggledad says, that apache error.log can be very helpful, you usually find it at your virtual user / root / your web user / your apache httpd.conf file – the logs are in general close in debian like stuff

Sorry just read your other post, it’s because your wp-config.php file is not yet setup like old website.

You did all the work, just some things to change.

Explaining myself, Jon, now you moved your website and it’s good,
you see a blank page because you need one more tweaking on the specific file (wp-config.php).

If you want, put your wordpress directory on a cloud and i look at it, otherwise, well make a shared directory with me i’d take a look. I guess you would have many nice it people to help.

Tell when it’s fixed please, that’s the most important thing,

Hi Digico,
Ok from the beginning; my old server running SuSE Linux Enterprise died from Hardware failure. The HDD (which is a SATA drive) was still in good shape. Unfortunately I did not do a backup as it had gone down before I could do the monthly backups.
Also I never do database backup (I will now though).
So I built a new server, this time running Debian (mainly because the updates isn’t subscription based) and there is a larger community of Debian users out there.
This new server I put in 2 new HDD and installed as I said Debian.
Then I installed MySQL, PHP5, I then installed WordPress, however without thinking I put on the latest version when I should have tried to install the version before this.
So the problem was how to get the old HDD to power up do a MySQL export and put it on the newer system.
What I did was put the old HDD on the new system and mount the drive. From there I was able to run MySQL and do an export and import into the new MySQL setup.
I now have the old website in MySQL.
I made the changes to wp-config.php to have the information of the old website name, username and password.
When I try to bring up the website, I get a white page nothing on it.
When I try to do a login domain_name/wp-login.php, it take about 10 minutes and it presents me with a login page, but not what I’m used to seeing (e.g. with WordPress login as the title).
When I look at the apache2 logs there is nothing there.
So I’m not sure what is happening, other then I may have missed something either in the apache2 config, MySQL config or WordPress config.
The location of the site is /var/www/html/domain_name.
What I’m looking for is troubleshooting information that could point me in the right direction.
Unfortunately none of the logs are showing anything regarding this.

Jon

Hi Jon I answered you on a other topic, reading it now,

A lot to read, but trust me i’m a good admin in Debian/Uubuntu stuff. I read and I answer in 3 minutes.

Thanks,

Which cloud would you like me to put it on?

What happens if you do an entrely new WP install to a new database – a play site. how is the performance of that site?

This will tell if it is a problem with wordpress and mysql or maybe a problem with your server’s setup.

Well something like put a cloud in something private, zip all files in let’s say a folder (this should make around 60 mb for the wordpress) – mmm maybe uptobox.com with a password

Any cloud with your full website directory, it’s just for me to try it on my own debian/ubuntu server and debug it.

Maybe Google Drive anything, just your website folder, i will try to debug it for free – it’s also a promo for me if I succeed.

juggledad, no impact on performance with no change on server nor code.

But if you have a short “defile” to come by, I suggest you use friends like MaxCDN.. Basic stuff..

jon, put it on what you like, give the url at: [email protected]