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Fresh install with “pretty permalinks” and wp-admin goes blank right after activating.

  • So far as I know, my host meets all the requirements with flying colors. PHP Version: 5.2.17, MSQL 5.1.51, and mod rewrite with “pretty permalinks” all seem to function great.

    I started by unpacking WP 3.3.2 in the site’s mostly empty (/cgi-bin type stuff is still there) root directory. Let’s say it’s http://mysite.com/index.php, and we start the fresh WP install. I give it all the usual information of my database username, database name & password, database hostname… OK, let’s just say I can set up a WP site in my sleep. It’s working great and I change it to the pretty “day and post name” links.

    Next I go to the plugin’s area (all disabled by default) and search/install Buddypress. It completes and I click on activate, and that nice yellow bar comes up prompting me to use the friendly wizard. I click it.

    I follow through by accepting all the defaults (which seem to match my situation perfectly), and click on that magical looking activate link—-

    BLANK.

    Oh the pain.

    Oddly though, if I go to the website’s homepage (http://mysite.com) it loads up with that successful looking default page. I’m logged in, and it’s looking back at me with hopeful aspirations, but alas, clicking on anything but log off is met with an uphappy 404 or a blank stare.

    What did I do wrong? Was there some magical incantation I forgot to recite?

    On a complete aside, I can get it to work if I activate the network, but then the child blogs are all messed up… To be honest though, I didn’t really want a bunch of mini blogs. OK, that’s just sour grapes, but still I’d like to get BuddyPress working.

    What am I doing wrong?

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  • If you’re getting a white page, take a look in your web server’s PHP error log, and see what the messages are.

    See, the server is in Columbus, OH and I’m not, so I called IX Web Hosting and they enabled the error logging and it spit this one out after I clicked on “Finish and Activate”.

    `Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 33554432 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 30720 bytes) in /hsphere/local/home/myusername/mysiteaddress.com/wp-admin/includes/media.php on line 1433 `

    Yeah… This tells me… um… I don’t have any idea what I’m doing.

    Any clues as to what this problem is? Do I need to call IX back or make a video on YouTube and open a new ticket? (There’s a YouTube video for everything these days…)

    I’m out of ideas.

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