Blank/White screen on site after fresh install

<?php
// Silence is golden.
?>

was the code in my index.php file, all alone

was like wtf? oddly it’s what’s in the zip file from your official download site

so i changed it back to the 2.9 code for index.php and everything worked:

<?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(‘./wp-blog-header.php’);
?>

I guess there’s a mistake with your final package?