Blank Home Page?

[gillenium]

I recently converted my website (www.helpingusellu.com) pages from html to php. When I did, I named all of the pages exactly the same, saved and published them, then went into my c-panel file manager and removed all of the .html pages including the index page.

The new site worked fine for a few days and then out of the blue I went to check it out and when the site loaded, it had just a blank, white page (no error messages) and the title was no longer the title I gave it, rather, it was the URL address. I went back into my file manager and the index.html page was back in there! So I deleted it and shortly thereafter, the site loaded and everything was fine. It continued to work ok throughout the next day.

Tonight I went to check the site and the same thing happened again, blank screen, no title and the index.html page was back again in my file manager. If I type in www.helpingusellu.com/index.php it would load fine and then able to navigate through the site just fine. I went back to file manager and deleted the index.html file again. After doing so, when I typed in www.helpingusellu.com/index.html I got my 404 error page I built.

Does it need an exorcism? How and why would a page that I deleted (twice!) re-appear back into the file?

Thanks in advance for your insight,
Scott

[Vasili]

Re: Blank Home Page?

Check to be sure you have properly selected the Publishing option in Page Properties so it truly IS being published as PHP.

[gillenium]

Re: Blank Home Page?

UPDATE: A few minutes after deleting out the index.html file again, and posting the initial post on this thread, the site must have re-freshed and is now working. Still need the insight on how the problem occurred twice so I can prevent it from happening again.

Thought maybe I could (should?) publish the index page as an html file and keep the rest php?

(I re-did the pages to php to use the html box technique of grouping items that may change frequently but are common on all pages.)

[gillenium]

Re: Blank Home Page?

Thanks for the idea Vasili. I double-checked the page properties the the file extension is selected as php. Any other ideas?

[Collectors-info]

Re: Blank Home Page?

It seems like you still have an html index page? is it also possible that you have set up a 404 page as an index page as well. IE: if a visitor gets a bad page, instead of a 404 they get directed to an index page.