Blank at once, public/install/index.php is blank
Submitted by pierjocke on Thu, 03/06/2008 - 10:50.
Hi everyone,
I have noticed some threads about blank screens after install but I get that at once. I get a notice at index.php to install at public/install/index.php but that page is blank. I have tried to enter error_reporting(E_ALL); in the document but it does not give any information. Echo works though.
Version is 0.8.0.2 and I am on a Suse 10 box with PHP 5.2.4, MySQL 5.0.45 and it fills the system requirements (SimpleXML, GD, InnoDB).
So, I can't start the installation process.
I have installed PP on my Windows desktop with XAMPP and had no problem.
Any thoughts?
Best regards,
Joachim
I managed to get an error message by logging:
PHP Fatal error: session_start(): Failed to initialize storage module: user (path: /var/lib/php5) in public_html/public/install/include.php on line 13
Greatful for any help.
Discussing with myself here :-) Maybe to the benefit of someone, far down this road?
Could this be because of the following setting?
session.save_handler = user
It appears that PP requires (confirm/reject anyone?):
session.save_handler = files
Trouble is I am running Drupal (requires "user") on the same server. On different Name-based Virtual Hosts.
I'll keep trying.
My very best regards,
Joachim
Alright boys and girls!
I am happier now! I see the install screen which is much more promising.
I put an Allowoverride All to the Virtual Server-definition and then put an .htaccess file in public_html containing this:
php_value session.save_handler files
AddDefaultCharset utf-8
That did the trick. I'll get back to this thread if the solution is not satisfactory after all.
Hope this saves someone a few hours of !fun exploring.
best,
Joachim
I am getting the same problem. I installed on a FreeBSD 7 server. I am not to sure what you did to solve your problem. Could you possibly post the steps you took to solve this problem. I would really really appreciate it =D (see the smily face?) Thanks in advance.
-Jose
I am not sure what I did but it is now working. The only major change I did made was installing phpMyAdmin. My guess is some component came along with it that change the setup of php and allows projectpier to work. I am curious now.
Usually problems with blank pages comes from a lack of memory for php. One many shared hosts, this can be overridden in a .htaccess file, so its possible phpmyadmin added some of those type of lines.