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mreff555

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Registered: 2015-02-13

Posts: 24

Problems with wordpress install (white screen of death)

I've been going through the arch tutorial to set up LAMP and wordpress.  I opted to do the manual install, and I'm having some issues which seem like they are related to permissions but I really have no idea.

Here is where I am at:

- I am able to create an index.php file and display phpinfo(), So I apache and php are working

- the root directory of wordpress is /srv/http/wordpress.  I've tried a few file permissions but right now everything from /srv/http is set to 755 with http as the user and group.  The apache config is set to this user and group.

- I created a httpd-wordpress.conf file with the location of wordpress specified and included it in the apache config

Alias /wordpress "/srv/http/wordpress"
<Directory "/srv/http/wordpress">
        AllowOverride All
        Options FollowSymlinks
        Require all granted
</Directory>

- I have a dedicated database with a dedicated user which has all privileges in this database. I did this manually but then set up phpmyadmin as was recommended in the tutorial. 

From here it seems like all I should need to do is go to localhost/wordpress and finish configuring everything, but I get a white screen.  No useful error messages, just this in the /var/log/httpd/access_log:

::1 - - [25/Jun/2017:21:57:18 -0400] "GET /wordpress/ HTTP/1.1" 304 -

Did I skip something? I did skip the proxy stuff in the LAMP setup because I didn't think it was required, but other than that I'm pretty sure I did everything.