I disabled all plugins and changed my theme and the website was displayed. With the twentysixteen theme enabled, I was able to enable all plugins and the website was still displayed.
Switching over to the momentum theme causes the black out. With this theme enabled I can disable all the plugins but the black out remains, however if I disable the Gantry Template Framework plugin, that causes the site to crash with the message “This theme requires the Gantry Framework Plugin to be installed and active.”
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