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I've got the famous white screen, but only on my home page. Deeper pages load just fine. I moved my themes directory to themes-old and made a new themes directory that only has twentyten in it. I changed my theme to twenty ten. I don't have any plugins enabled, but I moved my plugins directory and created a new, empty plugins directory.

I turned debugging on.

I'm at a total loss here. I did make some theme tweaks today, but I already restored the back up of my theme which didn't help, and anyway I've now set twentyten as my theme.

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Reset to default
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To make sure that the index.php will be loaded first add the following line to your .htaccess:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html

This tells Apache to ignore an index.html if an index.php exists.

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  • Removing the errant index.html works better, but this is a good alternate solution.
    – Amanda
    Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 18:21
  • I have had the white screen of death on several different sites now, and each time I seem to need a different fix. This one worked for me this time ;) Thanks.
    – danwild
    Commented Dec 4, 2013 at 1:16
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Because I somehow dropped a file called "index.html" in my WordPress install.

How'd I find out? I created a completely fresh installation and used diff to compare them.

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  • Always add define( 'WP_DEBUG', true ); to your wp-config.php during dev.
    – kaiser
    Commented Mar 20, 2012 at 4:04
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    That doesn't help if index.html is overriding index.php
    – Amanda
    Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 18:21
  • Shure it helps: You know that not a function is killing your output.
    – kaiser
    Commented Mar 26, 2012 at 20:16
  • OMG! I always look over this kind f stuff. Somehow, an index.html ended up in the repo, whitepaging the frontend :-P
    – Jos
    Commented Jan 5, 2022 at 15:22

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