how I fixed the “blank page” error

  • toyg

    (@toyg)


    19 years, 8 months ago

    The “include” process in WordPress relies heavily on two PHP features: the magic __FILE__ constant and the ability to include files from the parent directory (i.e. “include(‘../wp-config.php’);”).
    Unfortunately, on some installations, these features can be disabled for security reasons or simply unreliable. My situation (mod_php 4.2.3 on OpenBSD 3.4) was one of them: __FILE__ behaved pretty oddily and php didn’t allow me to include files specified as “../”.
    The solution: hard work. Thanks to jEdit and its Search/Replace, I’ve modified all the include() and require() statements that:
    – used relative references, or
    – relied on __FILE__
    replacing them with absolute pathnames (like “/home/myaccount/myblog.com/myfile.php”) .
    IMHO, especially __FILE__ is responsible for a good part of the “blank screens” out there… maybe the WP shoud spend some time to fix it.

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  • NuclearMoose

    (@nuclearmoose)

    19 years, 8 months ago

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    Anonymous

    19 years, 8 months ago

    I have been wrestling with a blank page problem (all pages blank, all the time) and tried the absolute pathname replacement, but it doesn’t work for me. I still get only blank html pages, even though php and mysql are still working for me (simple test cases outside wordpress verified this). Everything was working fine until I recently recompiled my freebsd kernel to include IPDIVERT (firewall options, not enabled yet). Any other ideas for fixing the my blank pages?

    Anonymous

    19 years, 8 months ago

    Which PHP version are you using? Check the include() and require() statements and change them to require_once() (if they’re not obviously in some kind of loop). I’ve probably changed a couple of them here and there.

    Thread Starter toyg

    (@toyg)

    19 years, 8 months ago

    (forgot to login, dammit 😉

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