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Why is WordPress not loading my sites?
Broken code is probably the most common reason why WordPress sites won’t load. Unfinished or incomplete auto-updates for your WP site or WP plugins. Incompatible plugins. Poor plugin or theme coding.
Why does Google Chrome starts downloading a webpage instead of simply displaying it?
The answer is simple: you visited your unfinished site in Chrome before it was configured correctly. Chrome correctly just downloaded your front page script file – and it has cached that result, showing it to you again and again.
Why does my website not load in WordPress?
Over the past few weeks, I’ve had a few clients contact me saying that their website won’t load. Instead, their current installation of WordPress tries to download a file whenever they access their site. This doesn’t matter if you try to access wp-login.php, /wp-admin, or any of the usual directories.
Why is my WordPress download file opening instead of opening?
The problem could be caused by using invalid/incorrect php/php.ini handler .htaccess code in the root .htaccess file. This was my problem. There could have been a php/php.ini handler code in the wp-admin .htaccess file when the wp-admin .htaccess file should not have any php/php.ini handler code in it.
How can I download files from WordPress website?
I backed up all files and downloaded the databases using four different methods, just to make sure: BackWPup, BackUpWordPress and manually by zipping the files & downloading the files via FTP. The original website works perfectly on the original server.
How to stop WordPress page from downloading files?
You can also simply add the following line to .htaccess as well which allows variations of PHP just to be on the safe side. The mu-plugins adds a handler when you save the configuration AddHandler application/x-httpd-php71 .php making the page being downloaded instead of processed.