wmrubel

This just happened to me, too, only more extreme. My entire site is blank. https://www.williamrubel.com/index.php generates a blank screen.

I saved a post and the screen went blank. I have two installations of wordpress. One in the root directory — a static site — and one in a wordpress directly — a blog. A direct call to the blog …wordpress/index.php also produces a blank screen.

I am getting cache memory full messages when I check the log file.

Needless to say — help!

Dear Moshu:

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. You guided me in the right direction. When I opened the new installation with the data from my old installation the blog address setting from the options was brought along with the other data.

I followed your suggested link and from that was easily able to change the incorrect value in the Options field.

I will add to what you have suggested. Once I did that I was able to get back into the options page through WP. I had only been able to change one value for the directories — wp root and blog — in MySQL. I was able to change the other one manually.

Also, the password that I needed to get back into my new installation was not the password that WP assigned –but rather the password to the old installation. So, using the old passoword I got back in, and changed the password!

These were minor bumps on the road. I had spent hours and hours and hours doing stupid things trying to figure out what I was doing wrong. So, once again, thank you for identifying what I had done wrong in a way that let me solve the problem.

I started over. I emptied the database and reinstalled wp. The installation went fine. My own theme works fine. I can add material and everything is fine. I made .htaccess writeable and updated the permalinks.

Next. I imported the data I had exported from my other installation of wp. Perhaps the problem is with the backup plugin that I am using. I am using “On-demand backup of your WordPress database. By Scott Merrill.”It seems that something is imbedded in the backup that has the direcory path to my /xx/ directory hard wired. Although this makes no sense to me.

In any case, thhis is now when chaos begins. For example, if, with the new data in the database I try to update permalinks at:
https://williamrubel.com/wp-admin/options-permalink.php
I get this error message.
The page isn’t redirecting properly

Firefox has detected that the server is redirecting the request for this address in a way that will never complete.

* This problem can sometimes be caused by disabling or refusing to accept
cookies.

Thank you