bkm888
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WordPress White Screen of Death on RPi 3 with Jessie

Wed Jan 18, 2017 3:06 pm

I installed the LAMP server and then WordPress jessie on one of my Pi 3 boxes. When logged into the wp admin dash board and click on "customize" the default theme (Twenty-seventeen), I get a blank white screen :x

I then edited the wp-config.php file to turn on debugging and then attempted the same thing again.

The error comes back as:

Fatal error: Call to member function wp_rewrite_rules() on null in /var/www/html/wp-includes/rewrite.php on line 150

I tried to find it in the php file, but I got lost in the logic.

This exact same error occurs every time I would try to click "customize" on any theme in the default configuration or any theme I try to add. :(

Has anyone else encountered this? (and more importantly, were you able to get past it?)

Thanks to everyone that pauses to think on this for me and the rest of the community. I would think that someone has WordPress working properly by now.

bkm888
Posts: 13
Joined: Fri Jan 13, 2017 8:56 pm

Re: WordPress White Screen of Death on RPi 3 with Jessie

Wed Jan 18, 2017 9:58 pm

Oh well.

I gave up trying. I started a new sd card with Jessie (did this 2 additional times) and did the install again and it still fails with the same message. :x

I recycled one of the failed Jessie WordPress SD card attempts with a new Jessie Lite image and went through the install of LAMP and WordPress again and now it works. Not sure what in the GUI stuff keeps it from working but at this point I don't care. At least I have a local WordPress server now. :shock:

Thanks to all those that looked in on this, but I am not interested in trying to solve the problem of it not working with the GUI version of the image as long as I have a pi on the network serving up the WordPress package.

BKM888

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