Today my blog was down for a couple of hours. My front page was blank. No errors, no response, no logs and it was really making me frustrated. After digging a while I found that my admin backend was working and there were no errors. And I tried to type any link so it would produce a 404 response, and yippee… my blog showed up. But the front page was still blank!
Then I remembered that last night I edited some configuration in .htaccess file. I tried to restore it and the front page was still blank. Argh….. Then I tried to find any tips on Google to solve blank page issues. First they said, deactivate all plugins, change to default themes, and clean all spam in your inbox. I did all what they said, but still my front page was blank!!!
All configurations were okay, all plugins were working fine because my other pages were working fine except the front page, .htaccess file was okay, then why was my front page still blank???
Hmmm… everything was okay but I missed one thing, there was an index.html file in my root directory!!! What the hell is that?? I don’t know why it was there! So I deleted the index.html file, and yippee my front page is back 🙂
So when you have the same problem, first look into your root folder, it should have only one index file that is index.php.
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