By noodles
After installing WordPress on my droplet, activating the required plugins, installing my theme and uploading some demo content, the home page stopped loading.
I went through the following steps:
- Created a droplet and installed WordPress on Ubuntu 14.04 using the one-click installer
- Use SSH to login to my droplet & obtain the htaccess login details
- Setup Wordpress
- Used the terminal to increase the max file size upload from 2MB to 20MB
- Installed my theme
- Installed & activated the all of the required plugins
- Uploaded the demo contet provided with the theme
- Selected the ‘Static Page’ option in Settings > Reading as specified by the theme documentation.
After refreshing the page, all that is shown is the spinning activity indicator. The theme does not load as it should.
I went through the same steps on my localhost (MAMP) and another hosted server (Dreamhost) and no problems at all.
I suspect it’s a PHP or an Apache setting.
Can anybody help?
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Thanks for your suggestions. I tried all of them.
- Updated permalinks twice
- Ran sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www & restarted apache
- Checked the log files - no errors
After I set WP_DEBUG to true, the following notices were displayed before the page tries to load the header:
Notice: Undefined index: custom_css in /var/www/wp-content/themes/eventme/header.php on line 82
Notice: Undefined index: custom_css in /var/www/wp-content/themes/eventme/header.php on line 88
The theme is trying to load a large header but instead just shows a spinning activity indicator:
178.62.252.130
Here is the link to the theme I am trying to install:
http://themeforest.net/item/eventme-responsive-event-landing-page/7437582
It seems like something is preventing the images from loading. As I mentioned before, the exact same setup works on other servers.
Any more ideas?
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