Blank wp-login.php page after entering credentials

Question

Today I went to login into my wordpress admin but I am getting a blank page after entering in my login details (wp-login.php is a blank white page).

So far I have:

Disabled all plugins through phpmyadmin (nothing changes)
Disabled the active theme (Colormag) and set the default theme to twentysixteen (doesnt fix anything)
I enabled debugging in the wp-config.php (doesn't give me an error message)
the error_log file isnt giving me anything either
Also cleared my cache, etc. Still Nothing.

I am pretty much at my whits end to say the least. I have been using wordpress themes for nearly 6 years and never had anything like this happen.

So my main question is (besides some person on hear knowing what exactly is wrong) how can I get a debug/trace log showing me where the issue is happening? The main site itself is functioning perfectly, it just kinks up at the login page.

Oh, the WP version is 4.4.2

`How to enable php error reporting` = [this](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/845021/how-to-get-useful-error-messages-in-php) — Xorifelse, Mar 30 '16 at 21:16
Is this happening in browsers other than the one this originally occurred in? It could be as simple as a caching/temporary files issue. It is worth double-checking before you go on a wild goose chase. — Cale W. Vernon, Mar 30 '16 at 21:41

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 30 '16 at 22:07

You say your browser shows a blank page?

Have you tried to open web developer tools (ctrl+shift+i in chrome) to debug what is happening? You would be able to see if there are javascript errors on the page and under "Network" you can check what the response of the actual wp-config.php request is. If the response is empty the issue is with your webserver or php and you should check the php log files. In the case of apache these are located somewhere in /var/log/apache2/error.log (by default).

Clearing your browser cache, like Cale mentioned, is also a very good idea.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 30 '16 at 23:38

You are experiencing white screen of death. http://codex.wordpress.org/Common_WordPress_Errors

Usually it's the issue with the theme when in functions.php there are some newlines preceding or following the code. Since it's not the issue of the theme (you changed it), it might be an issue caused by the plugin. Try to disable plugins one by one until the problem is fixed to discover which plugin might be causing the issue.

This might be helpful also: https://thethemefoundry.com/blog/wordpress-white-screen-of-death/

I disabled all plugins, same thing. Thanks for the link though, I'll give it a look. — , Mar 31 '16 at 02:49

Blank wp-login.php page after entering credentials

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