I solved the problem.
Somehow, when I upzip the wordpres-2.8.4, it would ask me if I wanted to override some files… I thought this was strange because it was the first time I upzipped, but I said ‘okay’.
This somehow affected the site installation when I uploaded the files to the server.
If this happens to you, try downloading the zip again, and extracting one folder at a time and then the rest into a new folder.
It worked fine after that.
Thanks for the response.
This time, I wasn’t upgrading, ZGani, I simply started over. New database, new files and I followed the 5 min installation guide. But I understand your confusion.
That wp-login.php giving a blank screen wasn’t happening before, so I’m starting to think this is a server issue.
I want to add that when I reinstalled, I removed everything — all files and host databases — and then created a new database and uploaded wordpress.