Just getting my site up and running and suddenly I only get white screen.

  • jhipshir

    (@jhipshir)


    10 years, 2 months ago

    Ok, so I’ll try and be detailed as possible. This is my first time using wordpress. I’ve made other websites in the past, but this is certainly faster when it works. I had everything working smoothly until recently. Installed WordPress, forwarded the URL from my DNS server, it looked nice and basic. I tried to change the theme, and then everything went white screen.

    From my experience in the past, that usually meant I had to change the permissions so that people could see it. I recursively changed the permissions so that everyone can read and execute (but not write) every file in the wordpress directory, and then I had no result, got frustrated and deleted the theme I was using to see what would happen. Essentially, it’s still all white screens. Any ideas on where I went wrong?

    The site is thestoriesyoutell.com

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  • adiant

    (@adiant)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    This is known as the White Screen of Death (WSOD) and lots of things can cause it. This piece of documentation is probably the best place to start:
    http://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors

    Though I personally find that turning debugging on often gives me some error messages to go by: http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Debug

    Thread Starter jhipshir

    (@jhipshir)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    I have turned debugging on and simply get no error messages. I am using my own server that I made in the US and am accessing from outside the country so all this junk is having to be done on a poor internet connection, but I don’t see how or why that would really affect anything.

    It doesn’t look like there are any errors, but I still get a white screen. I even deleted the WordPress directory, re downloaded the zip file and reinstalled the whole thing to no avail. Though I didn’t change anything from the old mysql tables and when I tried to do step 5 again in the 5-minute install, it said it was already installed.

    adiant

    (@adiant)

    10 years, 2 months ago

    I had hoped that someone with WSOD experience would have commented, but just checked now and your thestoriesyoutell.com site is working.

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