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I’m working on a client’s site (http://www.dryhero.com), running ExpressionEngine 1.6.9 served on Dreamhost.

The home page will frequently (though not always) return a blank white page. This seems to happen more regularly when browsing an interior page and returning to the home page (but happens on initial visits, too).

This error only occurs on the home page, which leads me believe it has something to do with search engine friendly URLs.

I have disabled the “PHP 5 FastCGI” option in Dreamhost as outlined here.

Here is my .htaccess code:

RewriteEngine on
#Access server stats
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/stats/(.*)$ [OR]
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} ^/failed_auth.html$
RewriteRule ^.*$ - [L] 
#Remove index.php
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

I have contacted Dreamhost and they assure me that there are no resource/memory issues. I haven’t found any similar posts here on the forum.

Has anyone experienced this? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a similar experience on a virtual server which uses the PHP FastCGI option.  Mine, though, is within the control panel.  Typically, when I make a setting change, I get a white screen.  Sometimes, I get the CP menus and the login page.

Is the FCGI to blame?

Hi skoolbus39, and welcome to the forums.

Please remove your URL rewrite rules and set your site’s index page back to ‘index.php’ when testing. If that doesn’t help, let us know your PHP memory limit.

Hmmm. I removed the URL rewrite rules—in fact, I simply removed the .htaccess file—and changed my index page back to index.php, but the blank page still appears (often).

I checked the memory_limit and it is 90M.

skoolbus39,

Do you have any caching setup for templates, db or otherwise?
Do you have any add-ons installed?

It was the caching, John!

I thought I had applied it to all of my templates, but it turns out that I did not enable caching on the home page like I did for the interior pages. Setting the refresh rate to 30 minutes seemed to do the trick.

Thank you, guys, for your time.

No problems. Feel free to start a new thread if you have any more questions.