Yesterday my site crashed🥴 “The white screen of death”and it took 12 hrs for me to troubleshoot and debug on my server, I did a t/c with the host site but while they were working on it so was I! It’s back up and they did exactly what I did on my server. Thanks IPage!( great customer service) Whew!
Although I prefer Joomla as my CMS, I decided to give WP a try for my own site. And one error caused the dreaded “white screen of death.” Whew! It was a permalink issue. 🥴Fixed it,and this is how:
I Renamed plugins, apparently in WP this can be the reason for the 500 error. The cache had to be refreshed…htaccess basically corrupted,inserted some fresh code, and made sure mysql was working properly( one of the files had a link redirect issue.) I am so glad I had a back up note: always have a back up! And if you don’t want to pay the hosting service, then back it up yourself with ftp ! Anyway I backed it up on my server.
Honestly, it was pretty invigorating for me! You may ask “why did you do all that if t/s was working on it ?” Simple, I fixed it on my own server in case it happens again I know how to correct it. One of my side hustles is building websites, I either write the code or template it .
It depends on what people want and my time. If it happens to one of those sites which I get paid to build and also manage then I can take care it quickly. WP is new to me and I always want to learn and not get stagnant. So ,how your day?
