Question

I moved my WordPress website from its live location to my local server and made sure the URL’s were properly changed in the database.

The site runs smoothly and I can navigate through all the pages just fine, but when I try to access the admin page, the screen is completely blank. I can get to the login page and it reads my credentials but when it tries to log me in, nothing appears.

Is there something I’m missing?

I am using MAMP, running on Apache.

Thanks.

Answer 1

There must be some kind of PHP error occurring; check your logs or create a blank file in your site’s root called PHP_errors.log and add the following to your .htaccess file

# enable PHP error logging
php_flag  log_errors on
php_value error_log  /path/to/your/site/PHP_errors.log

then refresh the page causing the problem and check if that log now has something in it. There might still be a URL that’s pointing to the live server instead of your local one.