Home page is blank after re-installing

  • Resolved lowdandcleer

    (@lowdandcleer)


    14 years, 2 months ago

    Hi there
    I had a blog running nicely for a while but when I decided to make a new blog this is where I ran into problems and it’s kind of a mess now.
    First I placed the new blog files into the root directory on my server (www.edenweb.net) but after saying that there was a successful install, when I clicked to view the home page it took me to the old blog link: (www.edenweb.net/guiriLife).

    So after that, I deleted the ‘guiriLife’ blog in its entirety from the server, re-installed the new blog files again, then I got a warning that I had to clear the database tables.

    I then deleted the database tables and re-installed…still a blank home page.

    I then deleted the database entirely, re-named it something else, changed the wp-config.php file to the new database name, re-installed and still a blank home page.

    Any ideas on what I can do?

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  • ericbarn

    (@ericbarn)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    you might have to go into phpmyadmin and change site url and home url from options in db.

    Thread Starter lowdandcleer

    (@lowdandcleer)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks! No idea how to do this, put I’ll dig around…

    Thread Starter lowdandcleer

    (@lowdandcleer)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    If this is not the solution is there anything else I can try? Not getting a response yet from my host and I have no idea of how to do this…

    henkholland

    (@henkholland)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Your login is here: http://www.edenweb.net/wp-login.php

    Check your index.php (the one outside your wp directory). It should contain this:

    <?php
/**
 * Front to the WordPress application. This file doesn't do anything, but loads
 * wp-blog-header.php which does and tells WordPress to load the theme.
 *
 * @package WordPress
 */

/**
 * Tells WordPress to load the WordPress theme and output it.
 *
 * @var bool
 */
define('WP_USE_THEMES', true);

/** Loads the WordPress Environment and Template */
require('./wordpress/wp-blog-header.php');
?>

    where in the last line “/wordpress” has to be changed to your own directory name or if you installed outside a specific directory then use this: require('./wp-blog-header.php');

    Thread Starter lowdandcleer

    (@lowdandcleer)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks a million for the tip….I just changed that line to ‘require(‘wp-blog-header.php’);’ since my files were in the root directory and it seems to work (at least the home page). I’ll see if any other pages are affected….finally I can start blogging! Thanks ‘henkholland’. Have a great day. 🙂

    henkholland

    (@henkholland)

    14 years, 2 months ago

    You´re welcome.

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