Manual migration frontend white screen

  • I have recently attempted to undertake a manual migration of a mutipress wordpress site from a much older version of WordPress on an old version of PHP. I tried to use a number of plugins to assist me with this, but I hit a number of issues and decided to go with a manual approach. Due to the size of the site and DB, everything has proven to be a bit problematic.

    Following the manual approach, I created a new wordpress instance on a new environment in our cloud hosted solution, I copied the wp-content folder across, along with the wp-config.php file and imported the db from the existing site.

    I ran the update db script, deactivated all themes except the default twenty twenty one and two, and deactivated all plugins.

    I successfully managed to get the admin area working and I can see all of the sites and posts.

    However, I simply cannot get the front end to work. When I look behind the scenes at the code it is simply display:
    <html>
    <head></head>
    <body></body>
    </html>

    And that is all. I’ve turned on additional PHP debugging but no errors are being picked up. It really does seem to me that it’s not even hitting the appropriate page. I’ve followed a number of tutorials which describe the steps I have taken above e.g. disable plugins, themes etc but i’m still hitting a white page.

    Can anyone offer any additional thoughts or advice on what I can look at?

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  • have you try enable WordPress debug mode to check if any errors?

    Following the manual approach, I created a new wordpress instance on a new environment in our cloud hosted solution, I copied the wp-content folder across, along with the wp-config.php file and imported the db from the existing site.

    Are you suppose to copy the entire WP install folder over? and not just wp-content and wp-config.php?

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