White screen after 4.1.6 auto update: index.php upgrade/filter.php

  • salpilk

    (@salpilk)


    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hi,
    My wordpress site auto-updated to 4.1.6, and then had white screen at the frontend of site.
    I was able to login in and update to the most recent version (4.2.3), hoping that this would sort the problem, but still white screen.

    After looking into I realised that the problem was a new line of code in index.php in my root directory (wordpress is installed in a subdirectory):

    require( dirname( __FILE__ ) . ‘/wordpress/wp-content/upgrade/filter.php’ );

    Removing this has fixed the problem, but I’m wondering why the problem occurred and how to avoid it in future. Any ideas?

    My /wordpress/wp-content/upgrade/ folder is empty… is something wrong here?

    Thanks

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  • Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    10 years, 9 months ago

    Hm, that seems very suspect. Just in case, try downloading WordPress again and delete then replace your copies of everything except the wp-config.php file and the /wp-content/ directory with fresh copies from the download. This will effectively replace all of your core files without damaging your content and settings. Some uploaders tend to be unreliable when overwriting files, so don’t forget to delete the original files before replacing them.

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