zrunner

To simplify the structure of my folders and return to a more classic state, I moved all my wordpress files to the /var/www/html/minecon folder, so that I only have one folder for the site. After modifying the index.php accordingly, I noticed that even the permalink generation, with the.htaccess, works again!

I still had a problem of 404 for the api and articles, but modifying the permalinks on the ‘simple’ structure (?p=123) fixed these errors. From what I see, everything is working perfectly! I put the Avira theme back to test it, and I still have no error. I think that not having a custom url is a lesser evil, compared to not having a site at all 😀

I would like to take this opportunity to ask one last question, is it really necessary to update php? I have version 7.0.33, and I see that version 7.2 is available, but I have no idea how to update it (probably a complete uninstall-reinstall?)

In any case, a big thank you for your help, I was starting to despair of my case x)

Thank @bcworkz, I tried some things, here’s my work:

The php user is indeed www-data (I checked it via <?php echo exec('whoami'); ?> in a php page).
According to the stat command, the owner of the folders is www-data, in the name of the same group (name verified via the groups www-data command), and all rights are in 644 for files, 755 for folders. Besides, in which folder is this file supposed to be created? Because it always returns me an error of missing rights…

For themes and plugins I said in my first message that I had disabled them all, with the default theme, so nothing on that side.

I found the php.ini file, as well as the error section, but the line error_log = syslog was commented. I added one just below by specifying a path, then restarted apache2, and now the theme preview works again. But since the /var/log/apache2/error.log file was almost empty, I deleted my line in php.ini, restarted apache2, and everything still works. I assume it was the restart that fixed this problem.

I went back to the “Site Health Status” page, and the REST API error is still present. More precisely “The requested URL /minecon/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post was not found on this server.”. By doing some tests I noticed that this url address was wrong, and that maybe that’s why the preview of the articles didn’t work (since the error is similar); the real address is /minecon/index.php/wp-json/wp/v2/types/post. But no idea how to fix it….

Thanks again for your help, which has already helped me unlock one of the white screens!