Title: Another Blank Screen Problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Another Blank Screen Problem

 *  [rfrye7533](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfrye7533/)
 * (@rfrye7533)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-blank-screen-problem/)
 * Hello,
    I was running 2.8.2 and a friend was changing themes when the screen 
   went blank.
    - I tried opening the site in a fresh browser, blank screen.
    - Went to the forum and found articles about changing the names of the themes,
      moved all the themes into a different directory, copied the Classic theme 
      into the themes directory from a good install… blank screen.
    - Removed all the plugins, blank screen.
    - Upgraded to WP 2.9.1, blank screen.
    - Restored automatic backup made by Simple Scripts, blank screen.
 * I was able to back up my databases using phpmyadmin, but lost the site before
   I could get a good WP export. I am at a loss to go further. Any help would be
   appreciated.
 * Ray

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 *  [Riversatile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/riversatile/)
 * (@riversatile)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-blank-screen-problem/#post-1487860)
 * Are you sure your friend only changed the theme ?!?
 *  [Riversatile](https://wordpress.org/support/users/riversatile/)
 * (@riversatile)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-blank-screen-problem/#post-1487862)
 * Give us the URL of the website to see what’s happen
 *  Thread Starter [rfrye7533](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfrye7533/)
 * (@rfrye7533)
 * [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-blank-screen-problem/#post-1487904)
 * Here’s what I did after I logged off a while back:
    - Created a subdomain named [http://www.oaspacecoast.org/test](http://www.oaspacecoast.org/test)
      and moved all WP files and directories from the ./public_html directory to
      the new ./public_html/test directory, **blank screen**.
    -  Redirected the original url to a legacy site.
    -  Installed WP 3.0-beta1 in the new /test directory.
    -  Imported the database using phpmyadmin.
    -  I got the following error:
       **Warning: require(/home1/oaspacec/public_html/
      test/wp-includes/post.php) [function.require]: failed to open stream: Permission
      denied in /home1/oaspacec/public_html/test/wp-settings.php on line 368**
    - Checked some of the WP documentation and found the bit about **Go to the database
      of your blog and find the wp_options table. This table stores all the options
      that you can set in the interface. The WordPress Address and Blog Address 
      are stored as siteurl and home (the option_name field). All you have to do
      is change the option_value field to the correct URL for the records with option_name
      =’siteurl‘ or option_name=’home‘.** and did that.
    - **Same error!**
 * HTH with t/s
    Ray

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [rfrye7533](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rfrye7533/)
 * Last activity: [16 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/another-blank-screen-problem/#post-1487904)
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