安装时的Wordpress WSOD

Question

I'm having some trouble with a brand new WP-install. I'm trying to install it on a clients host. There was already an installation of WP when i began my installation. I asked the client about it and was tolk i could remove it, it was just for test from their side. I saved it however and also copied the db and stuff.

Then, i removed all files from the FTP, i removed all the tables in the DB and all that jazz. Then, i took a brand new downloaded version of WP and uploaded it. I set all the proper values in wp-config.php and then launched the site and got a white screen of death.

I removed the wp-config.php and i got the "There's no wp-config"-stuff. I tried to alter the file and and even used the wisard, either way i got a WSOD or a WP-error. I get redirected to "wp-admin/install.php" but that's it. In the install.php I started to echo stuff to see where the crash were. It seems that it crashed on this line:

require_once( dirname( dirname( __FILE__ ) ) . '/wp-load.php' );

Then, i tried to set the define('WP_HOME', '') and d define('WP_SITEURL', '') to the actual URL. I tried even to take the old sites .htaccess file, but it gave me nothing. Then i started to google and found nothing.

After this, i gave up and installed all the old tables the client had there before for testing, and then uploaded the old site. Still a WSOD.

Anybody who knows what's going on here?

Answer 1

Well, as i mentioned in the comment, the problem was a bunch of redeclarations...

Something went really bad when the files were transfered, files got really bad.

If a file looked like this:

<?php
/* BLA BLA INFO */
function a_function()
{ //something }

the file could look like this when it was uploaded:

<?php
/* BLA BLA INFO */
function a_function()
{ //something }
<?php
/* BLA BLA INFO */
function a_function()
{ //something }

This made the redeclarations in some files, not all of them, just random files. The host got the same trouble when they tested, so something is really bad over there.

At least, now i know why the reason for the WSOD :)