Title: (Almost) All PHP Pages Empty/Blank
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# (Almost) All PHP Pages Empty/Blank

 *  [drummonds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drummonds/)
 * (@drummonds)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/almost-all-php-pages-emptyblank/)
 * Hi, all,
 * I have searched for help on this topic. But search engines all return many year-
   old pages. So…
 * I’m trying to figure out why my PHP pages are empty/blank. My blog is here: [http://e-scott.net/towardswisdom/](http://e-scott.net/towardswisdom/)
 * Things I have tried in my efforts to diagnose/correct:
    1. Since no pages worked, I tried doing a manual upgrade to 4.1 using these instructions:
       [http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress](http://codex.wordpress.org/Updating_WordPress).
       This didn’t change anything.
    2. Open a static HTML page such as [http://e-scott.net/towardswisdom/readme.html](http://e-scott.net/towardswisdom/readme.html).
       This works fine.
    3. Follow the link from readme.html to the install page: [http://e-scott.net/towardswisdom/wp-admin/install.php](http://e-scott.net/towardswisdom/wp-admin/install.php).
       The install page, which is PHP, works. And it tells me that wordpress is already
       installed.
    4. So I follow the link to the login page. But this page, like all of the blog 
       content pages, are empty and return 0 byte responses.
    5. I played with other WordPress installs on the same web host and they all seem
       to work.
 * Any tips for me in my investigation? Thank you!

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 *  [catacaustic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/catacaustic/)
 * (@catacaustic)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/almost-all-php-pages-emptyblank/#post-5749230)
 * To find out the problem you need to know what the rror that you’re facing is.
   There’s two ways of doing this. The first one is that you can look at the error
   logs of your site and that will show you what problems are where. The second (
   and probably easier way) is to change this line in your `wp-config.php` file:
 * `define('WP_DEBUG', true);`
 * Setting that to `true` will display the errors to the screen instead of hiding
   them (which is why you only see a blank page like you have seen on your site).
 * When you see what the error is you’ll be able to track it down and fix it.
 *  Thread Starter [drummonds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drummonds/)
 * (@drummonds)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/almost-all-php-pages-emptyblank/#post-5749314)
 * That is awesome. Will play with it.
 * Thanks!

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 * Last reply from: [drummonds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/drummonds/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/almost-all-php-pages-emptyblank/#post-5749314)
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