WordPress MU

I've installed WPMU a couple time in a couple places now on my server. Each time, no matter what I do, the signup.php doesn't seem to work.

I downloaded the latest version.

I enable new blogs and users. Make sure the themes all work OK. Everything seems to work fine.

I click on "Create a new blog" and it takes me to /wp-signup.php, where I fill in the user name and email address. I select "gimme a blog" and hit "next". It goes away and thinks about things for a minute and then I'm looking at completely blank page at/wp-signup.php.

I view source and there's nothing.

There's nothing in my error log. I've not touched the .htacess file. The http.config file is correct, with no obvious problems.

This first happened after I had an install working and I customized the themes and changed a lot of stuff. I thought I broke something, so I reinstalled a fresh version and the same thing happened. I had messed with the www .vs non-www issue and thought that might have broken something, but the fresh install did the same thing.

I dropped all of the tables and did a reinstall. Same thing.

Then I went to a new domain that I was using for testing. I downloaded the latest version and did an install there also. I didn't touch another thing and I get the blank second screen on the signup page.

What am I possibly doing wrong? How is is supposed to work? Is there a redirect or something that I'm missing? Is it just mad at me for trying to install with a "www"?

Here are my two installs. Feel free to sign up!

http://www.elsegundo.net/
http://nodogbeach.com/wordpress-mu/

I'm guessing it's something on your server, or your browser, hang on...

When I do it, is tries to download the wp-signup.php file.

So either the permissions are wrong on the file, or your apache needs tweaking. I'd say it was permissions/ownership since the other files run fine.

Thanks for checking on it.

It does display wp-signup.php so you can fill in the form. After you fill in the form and hit "next", then it returns to wp-signup.php and displays a blank screen. Is it supposed to return back to wp-signup or to another page in response?

I chmod 777 all of the files, so there should be no permission issues. I've checked .htaccess as well as httpd.conf and see nothing obvious. It doesn't seem to be a domain issue or a URL issue.

The only time I've seen a page displayed completely blank like this is when the theme is broken. It doesn't time out. It doesn't throw an error. It says it's done, but there's no content in the browser.

I'm not familiar with exactly what should be happening. I've looked at some other sites and in some sites, you are directed to "/wp-signup.php" and in other sites to "/register".

I can create a new site when I'm logged in. It just seems that no one can sign up or register themselves.

Thanks again.

And what theme should it be using for this process? Are there core themes for these pages?

I've got BP on the elsegundo.net site, but not on the nodogbeach.com site.

The signup page pulls in the details from the theme on the main blog. the blank screen means there's an error. usually this is caused by a plugin. You'll have to find your error logs somewhere on the server. maybe your host knows.

I am my host and there are no errors in the error logs.

I took out all of the plugins and tried that. No joy.

I'll buy that it's the theme, since I coded it and could have totally messed up something. The thing that puzzles me is that it works fine the first time. I mean, it loads, you fill it out and submit, then it returns to the same page and breaks. I assume the theme is the same both times.

What else changes between the first load and the second?

Here is what live headers says about the second load:

http://www.elsegundo.net/wp-signup.php

POST /wp-signup.php HTTP/1.1
Host: http://www.elsegundo.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.0.10) Gecko/2009042315 Firefox/3.0.10
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
Referer: http://www.elsegundo.net/wp-signup.php
Cookie: PHPSESSID=949a742e5024554dc6217fcf77035737; __utma=197223419.2862452569518444000.1243228554.1243362102.1243376065.8; __utmc=197223419; __utmz=197223419.1243228554.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|utmccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); wordpress_test_cookie=WP+Cookie+check; wp-settings-1=m0%3Do%26m1%3Do%26m2%3Do%26m3%3Do%26m4%3Dc%26m5%3Do%26m6%3Do%26m7%3Dc%26m8%3Do%26m9%3Do%26m10%3Do%26m11%3Do%26m12%3Do%26align%3Dright; wp-settings-time-1=1243363089; wp-settings-time-2=1243279610; __utmb=197223419.2.10.1243376065
Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
Content-Length: 197
stage=validate-user-signup&signup_form_id=1352784925&_signup_form=b095d84c4d&user_name=username&user_email=email%40address.com&field_1=Name+Name&xprofile_ids=1%2C&signup_for=blog&submit=Next+%C2%BB
HTTP/1.x 200 OK

Never mind. I quit. I'm going back to what works. I won't use WPMU any more for a while.

". I mean, it loads, you fill it out and submit, then it returns to the same page and breaks. I assume the theme is the same both times."

It's actually pulling the same page again.

Try it with the default theme.