Completely Blank *Everything*

  • allanh

    (@allanh)


    18 years, 4 months ago

    I have NO idea what’s going on. This happened to me with a beta test install a couple of weeks ago, but I neglected to mention anything at the time because I was too busy.

    This time around, I have successfully upgraded an install to 2.0 (THANKS developers!!). Everything goes smoothly and all is well with the world. THEN all of a sudden I make a change and *Everything* goes blank–like no output of any kind; no errors, no HTML (on the page or in the source)–nothing.

    Check it out: http://www.transreality.org

    The server is running Redhat 9 with Apache 2 and PHP 4.2.2 (I know, I know, I’m in the process of upgrading).

    Last time, the last thing I remember doing was activating Akismet with a WP.com key. This time, I was testing out the new upload feature in the “write” dialogue and after I hit enter, the form area went blank and nothing else appeared to happen, so I refreshed the page and it just went blank.

    I’m at a total loss as to how to proceed. Any idea’s would be greatly appreciated!!

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  • Thread Starter allanh

    (@allanh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    BTW I did search, but to no avail. If someone can point me to a thread that deals with this, I’ll apologize profusly for not searching hard enough to find it 🙂

    schestowitz

    (@schestowitz)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    This seems to be common. See, for example:

    http://wordpress.org/support/search.php?q=blank+page

    These are threads that contain the symptom description in the title, so there are more.

    skulled

    (@skulled)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Try deactivating all the plugins and see what that does.

    Thread Starter allanh

    (@allanh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Well, I would, but I don’t have an admin area to do so. Literally *everything* is blank–the admin area too 🙁

    I’m also not utilizing *any* plugin’s. I haven’t activated either the backup or akismet plugins and I’m using the stock template from the brand new install (I deleted *all* of the files from the old install (backed up of course)).

    None of the other threads seem to deal with this issue specifcally–not that I can read. I’m still digging around, but this isn’t just the home page after I’m logged in.

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Check your MySQL database. The only time that I saw all of my pages go blank was when I had reached the maximum connection limit for my database.

    Thread Starter allanh

    (@allanh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Did I mention that I was also running the site successfully after the install for several hours? I did a test post and did some config changes and everything went smoothly.

    I’m also using Firefox 1.5 on OSX.4.3 and the same thing happens in Safari and IE on my winblows box.

    Thread Starter allanh

    (@allanh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    The database is fine. This is running on my own dedicated server with very minimal load and all the other sites on it are running fine.

    Thanks for the fast input peoples 🙂

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Volunteer Moderator

    18 years, 4 months ago

    As a shot-in-the-dark, try running the upgrade.php script.

    Thread Starter allanh

    (@allanh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Tried it. Blank. 🙁

    Thread Starter allanh

    (@allanh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    So, I tried repairing the tables, but they all checked out as good and if they were bad, I’d be getting some sort of error anyhow.

    I manually deleted the plugin’s from /wp-content/plugins/.

    The *only* other change I’ve made is to put the del.icio.us javascript in the sidebar, but after manually removing that I’m still no dice.

    Thread Starter allanh

    (@allanh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    I also have a 24 hour old install up here: http://www.greenthink.net/ on the same server that, even after a new (beta) template and hacks to it seems to be working ok.

    I’m going to start messing with it methodically and see if I can replicate the issue.

    Thread Starter allanh

    (@allanh)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    YUP.

    So, I went into the Write area on Greenthink.net and tried to upload a picture. It tells me that wp-content needs to be writeable, so I chmod 777. I try again and the exact same thing happens.

    This time I notice that it’s created the /wp-content/cache/ directory, so I delete it and I get the site back.

    I go back to transreality and delete /wp-content/cache/ and it’s back now too.

    I saw this in another thread, but I believe it was unresolved. I’ll try to find that thread again and see what’s up.

    schestowitz

    (@schestowitz)

    18 years, 4 months ago

    Have you tried disabling the cache altogether? There is a line in wp-settings that would achieve that.

    Thread Starter allanh

    (@allanh)

    18 years, 3 months ago

    Sorry I didn’t post back on this–been busy. I didn’t, actually, try to disable the cache through wp-settings.php, because I got a new server and I’ve been busy migrating all of my accounts over.

    The new server is running a more modern PHP (4.3.11) and the cache problem no longer exists for me. I would suggest that perhaps this issue effects installations running < 4.3 ?

    I’ll get around to testing this hypothesis in the near future and post back with results–unless someone already has discovered this?

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