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ljmac, sorry I might have marked this as “resolved” a little bit prematurely.
I am running 2.5.1 and it works fine for me now. Did you check line 154 in media.php? Also, I know it says “syntax error” but did you check file permissions for media.php?
Where can you find: php.ini
Not seeing it anywhere on my server.
I’ve tried the other fixes suggested without any luck.
My issues: Blank screen for everything but wp-admin. When I login wp-admin does do a password check and will either tell me it’s incorrect or correct, but instead of logging in on correct submission it just sits on wp-admin.
Domain is http://www.citadel-of-light.com
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I also had this problem as meny of you guys. I simply renamed the “/wp-content/plugin”-folder to something else, then it was ay okey to login to admin. After that I had to remove all unwanted plugins. (In my case “noflashupload”)
No luck there on that one for me.
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Glamdering and Gymgrossisten (by the way – where do you guys get your login-names from?!) I think you’re talking about a different problem.
Basically, any php parsing or syntax error will result in a blank screen. This can happen while installing, or further down the road. If you can access wp-admin or the plugins folder that seems to suggest that your installations have already been completed (otherwise you’d be redirected to wp-admin/install.php).
I recommend with any bsod to activate php error display. You probably won’t be able to do this yourself, so ask your ISP. This will then output the particular issue you’re encountering (it could be any number of things) to the screen, and you’ll be able to deal with it.
Stone, Hunter – thanks for the help. I tried another upload with auto overwrite and used a fresh 2.6 download (is it possible that the first pack that went live last night had an issue?). Then also deleted gallery legacy elements in my wp-content folder. Also 2 other files in the folder db.php and wp-cache-config.php which were in the wp-content folder.
My uneducated guess is that either a file i’d missed got re-uploaded/updated or the wp-cache stuff was conflicting with the 2.5/2.6 caching process.
After that the site is working again.
Thanks for your help.
*huge sigh of relief*
ive reinstalled word press today and its worked, just how ive been tring it for the last loads of attempts, perhaps theyve fixed it??
technohead01 – and you didnt change anything?
So my problem with installing WordPress (2.5.1 and 2.6.1) was a blank screen at the point where the install was running in /wp-admin/install.php.
I was able to create the config.php using the web interface, however at the next step of actually installing WordPress it failed with no output to the screen and no error message in the server logs. It did not even get to the point of creating the database tables in the MySQL database.
I found nothing that worked online about this despite many suggestions, but I happened on a fix pretty much accidentally.
The fix was to add the following line to the .htaccess file in the root directory of the server.
php_value zend.ze1_compatibility_mode “0”
Do I know why it worked? No.
It was a setting I had to change for another application (MediaWiki), and it had the added benefit of fixing me up (Though it still took a little bit of time to realize that was indeed the fix)
Just throwing this out there for those that may be encountering the same thing. Hope it helps even one… Cheers.
I believe I have the solution to this issue. Unlike other php aps I’ve used, WordPress 2.5.x upwards seems to require UNIX carriage returns. Hence, if you edit a file on your PC or your Mac, it will have a Mac or PC style carriage return in the file, and this will completely break it.
The only way I’ve found to solve this issue is to use a text editor (like TexEdit Plus on the Mac) which allows you to convert all the carriage returns back to UNIX carriage returns when you’ve finished editing.
Note that when I first encountered this issue, I could not install WordPress 2.5.x upwards at all. However, since I figured this out, I’ve been able to run my blog for 2 months now without a single blank screen.
i just found out what was causing this for me.
the newest wp-config has the keys where you can input information inside the quotation marks.
i made the dumb mistake of using two punctuation symbols (an ! and you’re) and that was killing the install (or reinstall) for that matter.
it may be something very obvious to most, but i screwed it up and haven’t read that documented. hopefully that can help someone because it interpreted it as code and threw everything off.
I had the same problem (blank screen) and it turned out that /wp-includes/script-loader.php hadn’t completely uploaded
PHP Warning: Unexpected character in input: ”’ (ASCII=39) state=1
I found the same solution as cnmoody above. For the Authentication keys, I used the online generator and pasted the results straight into wp-config.php . When I edited the keys to alphanumeric only, it worked fine.
