Help, my blog is blank.. as in about:blank!

If this helps, there was an error-message I initially got but no longer. A google ego-search reveals this one, which I think it was:

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 92160 bytes) in /home/vinnie/www/vincent.van-wylick/html/blog/wp-content/plugins/tantan/tantan_reports.php on line 129

No one at all?

Ok, a little update. I installed a new wordpress to a new directory, blog2 on the server. In the config.php, I first changed the name of the MySql database from name_wordpress to name2_wordpress. The message that came up when I ran the install.php script was that the login and password were fine, but the database name didn’t exist.

Fine. So I changed it back to name_wordpress and tried install.php again. Instead of running anything it downloads the install.php file to my PC.

Does this mean that the database is corrupted? What would I need to do to fix that? Please help, I feel like I’m speaking to air here.

It seems like php is not configured properly on the website, because it doesn’t run the pages but rather serves them as text files.
You should ask your hosting friend to help you with making a backup of your database (see elsewhere on www.ads-software.com) through phpmyadmin before you continue trying other things like upgrading or reinstalling.
While you’re at phpmyadmin, take a look at the contents of the database to see if everything is still there (which it should, if the migration was done properly).

Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 92160 bytes) in /home/vinnie/www/vincent.van-wylick/html/blog/wp-content/plugins/tantan/tantan_reports.php on line 129

PHP files will also download instead of run if your memory limit is set too low. The above error messages tells me that’s your problem. You should contact your friend/host and ask him to increase the memory limit for your PHP.

8mb memory limit should be enough for most PHP scripts. Any more than that, and it’s likely a code issue.

8mb memory limit should be enough for most PHP scripts. Any more than that, and it’s likely a code issue.

Funny – if you search the forums, you’ll see that, for WordPress, the bare minimum (which *is* 8) is a common problem, and people are quite often told to get it boosted up to 16 – which usually fixes the problem.

If wordpress is using more than 8mb in a single action… for something other than one-time issues such as import/export/etc… mmmm.

Thanks for the replies. I’ll post this conversation to my hosting friend and will see if we can get this fixed.

I just remembered, I did get ‘memory size exhausted’ errors when trying to post certain sized pictures from my blog-editor. After that I reduced the size of the pictures—which I should’ve done in the first place—and all was fine.