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Imsalgado, I hope I have the answer for you but from reading the history you’ve been pretty thorough and may already have checked this! I had exactly the same problem on my newly installed WP site (a completely blank white screen) and like you, spent hours trying different options.

Just before I reached for a hammer I mentally went over the installation steps to see whether I had done anything that would vary from the standard installation (not just process but actual configuration). The only things I had changed were the security keys and the wp-content directory – both in the wp-config.php file.

The WP installation instructions quote specific guidance for editing wp-config.php

The example they list for the WP_CONTENT_DIR is as follows: ‘define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, $_SERVER[‘DOCUMENT_ROOT’] . ‘/blog/wp-content’ );’

My problem was that I used this example and only replaced the ‘/blog/wp-content’ bit with my local path and assumed that the preceeding bit was all valid syntax. It wasn’t. I tried changing the whole statement to: ‘define( ‘WP_CONTENT_DIR’, ‘./wp-content’ );’, refreshed the page and bada bing – there it was, my home page.

My logic for trying this was that all the other posts suggested that php or WP would stop execution if any of the content was missing but what if it couldn’t actually see any of the content at all? Anyway, your issue might not be the same but it may be worth checking all the variables in wp-config that are set as part of the installation script.

Alternatviely, I came across another link that may have some other suggestions you haven’t already tried.

Hope this helps!