Title: re-install; blank pages; drives-me-crazy problem.
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# re-install; blank pages; drives-me-crazy problem.

 *  Resolved [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
 * (@llprice)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crazy-problem/)
 * I just did a manual upgrade from very old to new version WP.
    Everything looks
   okay as I login as admin, and went to the dashboard, I saw the titles to all 
   of the posts. When I click to view any posts, however, I saw the under-construction“
   index.html” in root. None of the WP pages will load in a browser; just get a 
   blank page. If I remove the index.html from root (while index.php is there), 
   I see server information (type, version,etc.,. stuff). Yikes. I believe that 
   before, I could leave both index.html with index.php in root, and php loaded 
   as home anyway.
 * I double-checked the database, it seems to be populated.
 * Before the upgrade, WP files were in a sub-directory of root, with htaccess and
   index.php out in root. I did the same thing this time. I double-checked those
   settings/general in dashboard, and all looks well, but clicked “save” anyway.
 * I made the change to index.php: require(‘./news/wp-blog-header.php’);
 * The only thing in htaccess, which I’m not even sure I need, seems to be “AddType
   application/x-httpd-php .php .php3 .phtml .html”
 * I hadn’t loaded a customized theme, so I did that next. Made no difference of
   course.
 * Where should I start looking for my goof, or a solution to this problem?

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 *  Thread Starter [llprice](https://wordpress.org/support/users/llprice/)
 * (@llprice)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crazy-problem/#post-1211621)
 * Okay. got it installed, but darn it was a pain.
    I had a under-construction html
   active while I was attempting the upgrade, so I reconnected my out-of-date blog.
   After all of the messing around, I got a prompt in dashboard that I needed to
   update my database. I clicked okay. (I wonder if that was the magic bullet.)
 * I started over. For most part, I followed directions at:
    1) [http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended](http://codex.wordpress.org/Upgrading_WordPress_Extended)
 * 2) EVERYTHING was backed-up first INCLUDING the database–again–with whatever 
   changes were made when I reconnected and clicked for that mystery update prompt)
   Of course,I used PhpMyAdmin to export and save those tables with the posts onto
   my desktop.
 * 3) I deleted and reinstalled the lastest WP version.
    4) I went to the (old) 
   database and dropped the contents (which were already backed-up on my desktop).
   I installed the new WP version with the OLD CONFIG file. (before, I had just 
   tried to manually add the old information to the new config.php). The new install
   loaded! But of course, without MY posts or my template. 5) I grabbed my saved
   template files and dropped them into the new install’s, wp_content/…/templates
   folder. 6) I then logged in with the temp password, and changed that temp pass
   to the exact previous (old) password. 7) And selected my old theme. Whoopee! 
   it looked like my old site–except it still didn’t have any of MY posts. 8) I 
   went back to the database, dumped (deleted) the new database tables. 9) I imported
   my saved tables. Yes!

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/crazy-problem/#post-1211621)
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