Comments on: WP-ADMIN giving a blank white screen

By: Richard

Richard — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 23:29:19 +0000

Very strange. Somehow one of the original installed files must have been corrupted, but that seems unlikely? Just put it down to a “we will never know the answer” problem.

By: robert

robert — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 00:57:16 +0000

Oddly I got it sorted by uploading wordpress manually and overwriting what was already there. Same version too.

The only difference was the borked install was upgraded via the automatic upgrade option from the Admin page.

By: Richard

Richard — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 19:16:16 +0000

There must be a difference then in the server configuration? Have you tried doing a comparison of phpinfo() off each server?

By: robert

robert — Mon, 22 Mar 2010 11:37:40 +0000

I moved my blog to my dedicated server yesterday. Simply a backup and restore job and now I have the same problem.

I did find a blank line at the end of my config but removing it didn’t help.

The strange thing is that it was working perfectly on the old server which is absolutely 100% identical to the current one. Software, updates etc. The only thing that’s different is the IP address!

By: Richard

Richard — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 00:22:44 +0000

That is a very old config file, and of course it is one of the very few files that is never upgraded. I would have imagined there would be some way of stripping off unwanted lines by now?

I suppose they just assume that those lines will never creep in, though there should be warnings as it is a file that is commonly edited.