Magento 2 blank admin page issue in Magento 2 often happens when you upgrade Magento 2 version or refreshing installation of Magento 2 in Localhost. We have been encounter and solving this problems and want to show you a working solution for all the store owners of Magento 2.2.7 and Magento 2.3.
Magento 2 is an incredibly complex platform and sometimes, errors may not occur in Live environment, but do happen in local environment. It’s important to understand the cause of the issues so that we can solve the issues the next time we encounter them.
Magento support a robust admin panel that enables the store owner to solve all store function at one place. To support a smooth shopping experience to your customers and keep updated with trends one needs to update their website regularly.
But if you perform an upgrade, an migrate or refresh Magento 2 installation whether it is Community Edition or Enterprise Edition, you have seen that well known blank page error that occur nothing on the front.
1. Cause of the Magento 2 blank admin page error
The error usually display on a localhost installation of Magento 2 on the Windows operating system. The cause for this issue is that Magento 2 and Windows has a different file path indicator.
- On Windows, you can see path to a folder like this:
C://Magento2/App/Code - In Magento 2, file path is:
Magento2\App\Code
That’s it! The cause of the error is different file path indicators between Magento 2 and Windows, which make Magento 2 couldn’t load template files. Here is a solution if you encounter the same blank page issue after performing a fresh installation of Magento 2.x.
2. How to solve this error in Magento 2.3
Move to #/vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/Template/File/Validator.php:114
and find the below string:
$realPath = $this->fileDriver->getRealPath($path);
after that, you could replace it with:
$realPath = str_replace('\\', '/', $this->fileDriver->getRealPath($path));
3. How to solve this error in the Magento 2.2.7
Move to: /vendor/magento/framework/View/Element/Template/File/Validator.php:113
You’ll find this below code:
protected function isPathInDirectories($path, $directories)
{
if (!is_array($directories)) {
$directories = (array)$directories;
}
foreach ($directories as $directory) {
if (0 === strpos($this->fileDriver->getRealPath($path), $directory)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}You could replace them with:
protected function isPathInDirectories($path, $directories)
{
$realPath = str_replace('\\', '/', $this->fileDriver->getRealPath($path));
if (!is_array($directories)) {
$directories = (array)$directories;
}
foreach ($directories as $directory) {
if (0 === strpos($realPath, $directory)) {
return true;
}
}
return false;
}4. How to fix Magento 2 admin page keep loading
Sometimes after solving the blank admin page issue, you may face admin page keep loading. You can’t do anything with the loading admin page error, even reloading the page isn’t working
This error occurs due to Magento 2 didn’t finish deploying static view files in production mode.
Static view files are can be found in the <magento_root>/pub/static , and some files are cached in the <magento_root>/var/view_preprocessed directory.
Solution for this issue
- To resolve this error, we will follow a command that forces Magento 2 to deploy static view files
- To open CLI interface in Windows, move to your Xampp control panel and click on Shell button.
- Follow the below command in Shell interface:
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f
- After that, you need to wait a few seconds for Magento 2 system to deploy static content.
- Sample output:
- Lastly, you refresh Magento 2 admin page and the issue should be solved.
That’s all about Magento 2 blank admin page and the effective ways to solve it. If you still find it difficult to solve this issues or any further questions regarding Magento, then you can get in touch with Magento experts for any free support. Magesolution is one of the leading Magento 2 extensions and Magento 2 theme providers and Magento web development services in the world.
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