Blank page when updating to 2.0

* PHP 4.2.2 with Zend 1.2.0 on Apache 1.3.20.

* Have /wp-content/cache/ (or had ?? ).

* 755 on /wp-content/

Hmmm, the cache flusher requires some compatibility functions for PHP versions older then 4.3. Maybe that code is broken. Is the server Windows?

* PHP 4.4.1
* 775 on wp-content – disabled cache per instructions and seems to work fine.
* Browser firefox 1.5

* My blank page problem was compounded by ffox asking me to download php files instead of executing them …

Nope, running on SuSe Linux.

Maybe it is time to make my host upgrade PHP. But we mostly go by “don’t fix what’s not broken” etc…

I have this problem as well. All pages I attempt to pull up are blank, including themes.php. I’ve attempted the following and I still get blank pages:

o Implemented the PHP_SELF fix referenced above.
o Disabled the cache in wp-setting.php.
o Deleted the contents of wp-content/cache (after backing them up)

I’m running a fresh install of WordPress 2.0, and my PHP version is 5.1.1-1. I was running a proxy that is likely blocking my referrer, and I was attempting to enable an rss feed plugin at the time. But now I get blank pages even with the proxy turned off!

Directory permissions:

juju@server:/var/www/wordpress$ ls -l | grep wp-content
drwxrwxrwx 7 juju juju 4096 2006-01-09 01:17 wp-content

juju@server:/var/www/wordpress$ ls -l wp-content
total 24
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 2006-01-08 23:49 backup-104de
drwxrwxrwx 2 www-data www-data 4096 2006-01-09 01:18 cache
drwxr-xr-x 3 juju juju 4096 2006-01-09 01:17 cache_bak
-rw-r–r– 1 juju juju 32 2005-11-18 17:18 index.php
drwxr-xr-x 4 juju juju 4096 2006-01-09 00:34 plugins
drwxr-xr-x 5 juju juju 4096 2006-01-08 20:51 themes
juju@server:/var/www/wordpress$

Does anyone have any further ideas?

I also tried ryan’s custom wp-settings.php file, and that didn’t work either. ??

Hmm.. I attempted a new install, and it broke again when I tried to activate the feedlist plugin. I guess that must be the culprit!

Yep, I didn’t install the plugin correctly. All is well now.

As yet-another-me-too’er on the thread, I should say that tweaking the cache setting fixed my problem as well. And since this is the first google hit for “blank page wordpress” I have to say it was a relatively seamless tech support experience. ??

I also had the same problem – I got to the first upgrade screen, then when I clicked to go on (page1) I just got blank screens, there and everywhere.

I fixed it by uncommenting the DISABLE_CACHE line (see earlier post). My server runs PHP 4.2.2.

Everything seems to work now, although if someone could explain what I’ve just disabled, and what I’m missing out on…?

Cheers,
Joel

Running OS X server 10.4.4 , new to wordpress and not enthused. I’m runnning MySQL 5.0 and PHP 5.0. Don’t have the option to use older MySQL. Both are runnning fine on our other sites.

there’s other sites on this server so that’s not the issue, getting the blank page problem under wordpress 1.5 an 2.0 using January 21 build.

Tried the OLD_Password and regular hash for connection verified blog user password with navicat for connectifiy. Looked at all these comments, and have uncommented that line in the settings.php file.

Stumped Stumped Stumped….

I had this same problem and after a few hours, traced the cause to a php upgrade made by by web hosting company (1 and 1). It seems that there were two versions of PHP installed and my blog was using version 4.4.2. When I forced it to use the 5.x version by placing an .htacess file in the WordPress directory with the line:

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

everything resolved itself.

Your mileage may vary.

Al

AddType x-mapp-php5 .php

@ alberg: Herzlichen Dank für diesen Tip. das hat geholfen.

for the few people who don′t understand our language: His hint did the job for me, since i had problems with my install after the hioster upgraded the PHP.

My web host sometimes has wierd problems where the file permissions get messed up. My error was fixed by using the ‘DISABLE_CACHE’ fix, but all I really had to do was delete the ‘cache’ directory in ‘wp-content’. The problem is, the file permissions would not let me delete these files for some reason, but I could rename the ‘cache’ directory to ‘junk’. So now I have several kB of cached webpages taking up space on my server, but my site is back to normal.

The catch worked for my site but now it seems like my hosting company is screwing with my database because i’m getting a bunch of errors.