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1. Dnal
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have almost completed a manual install.
   Having filled in the page at wp-admin/install.php , and receiving the automatically generated password, I was brought to wp-login.php.

   However, having entered my username and password and clicked log in, the page went blank. Manually going to any page such as wp-admin/index.php (the dashboard) just displays  on a blank page.

   The site is up, displaying the default page with the test post and comment, with my blog name at the top, but I can't and have never been able to log in. I am definitely using the correct password, as when I try a wrong password, the login page throws up an error as it should. Therefore, the password is accepted, but I can't get any further.

   How can I solve this?

   I know that another poster had a similar problem and posted at this thread: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/194115

   If the original poster Pecharroman, or the moderator samboll reads this, can you please tell me how the problem was fixed.

2. BPartch
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Check your header.php file at the beginning of it for any characters before the <!DOCTYPE...

3. Dnal
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   It's not the header, as the pages it displays on are in the admin section, not the site pages with your choice of theme that everyone sees on the site.

   I found this, I know it's about Joomla, but it explains what the symbol is: http://forum.joomla.org/viewtopic.php?f=309&t=275353

   It's to do with the UTF-8 Character Set

   I still haven't solved the problem though, so keep the suggestions coming!

4. BPartch
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   What text editor are you using?

5. Dnal
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Notepad 2. I've edited nothing but the wp-config.php file, which is working fine, because it contains the database details. If it was not working, the site would not be online.

   I am beginning to think the problem might be with WordPress 2.8.3 .

   I see that 2.8.4 is now available, I might try that

6. Jan Dembowski
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   A link would help. It might be an encoding issue.

7. Dnal
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Here you go:
   http://www.musicalit.ie

8. Jan Dembowski
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Looks fine to me, but this happens after you login.

   Try logging in and when you get the odd characters and then in Firefox select View -> Character Encoding -> Unicode (UTF-8) and see if that gets the page right.

9. Dnal
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Having done that, the characters just disappear, leaving me with a completely blank page, which I assume means that the problem has little or nothing to do with the characters.

   All of the WordPress files are definitely on the server. I have re-installed several times, but the problem persists. If I manually try to navigate to pages such as /wp-admin/index.php, I get a blank page (with the same charachters unless I do as you suggest above).

   P.S
   There is no .htaccess file anywhere in the WordPress directory, could this have anything to with it?

10. Dnal
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    The problem was indeed with WordPress 2.8.3, I uploaded 2.8.4 today and hey presto, I could log in, effortlessly.

    I now have just one or two minor problems including:

    I want my permalinks to be formatted: musicalit.ie/2009/08/25/sample-post/

    However WordPress tells me the following:

    If your .htaccess file were writable, we could do this automatically, but it isn’t so these are the mod_rewrite rules you should have in your .htaccess file. Click in the field and press CTRL + a to select all.

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

    I have been in touch with my hosting provider, and hopefully they'll be able to sort that and one or two other little niggles out for me.

    If not though I shall be back for more help!

    (Thanks a lot to all of the above posters for your help)

11. Luggruff
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    I have the same problem as you with the blank page..

    though with a FRESH 2.8.4 installation. I just edited the sample config-file, uploaded all files and deleted the sample-config (and kept the new and plain wp-config.php). Installed the blog through /wp-admin/install.php and got my password. Logged in and none of the pages under the /wp-admin/-directory is showing up..... the blog itself is though.

    Tried the UTF-8 setting in the view-options of firefox, and it was already on UTF-8.

    All modified so far is in the config.php and it's the DB-name, the DB-login, the DB-password and the host of the DB. Tried changing to Localhost and it was as it should (and I could install the blog, so it's not the config-file).

    Help?!

12. Luggruff
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    ..could it be that the files uploaded should be CHMODDED? Is there any files that NEED to be publicly writeable?

13. Luggruff
    Member
    Posted 2 years ago #

    ..it's like the redirecting of the pages does not work. They just stop. And whenever I go to /wp-login.php i get prompted to login, as if no informationo about me loging in was registered. I also get an error when writing the WRONG password that says:

    ERROR: Incorrect password. Lost your password?
    ERROR: Cookies are blocked or not supported by your browser. You must enable cookies to use WordPress.

    ..my cookies are on, but does this mean the cookies settings in the install are burnt or something? Hmm..

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