phpcoin blank screen, coin_includes/session_admin.php blank

[dren]

On Friday it was fine, but today I try to login and it goes to a blank screen. Any ideas why?

[azcappy]

A blank screen is always a syntax error. Did you edit any of the files that construct the page? Also check your log files on the server to see if php is throwing any errors.

[dren]

LOL, mod_evasive blocked me. Sorry to waste your time! Thanks for your response!

[dren]

I white listed myself and thought that would fix it, but I still can't get in. I'll search the logs and post here when I get asolution.

[azcappy]

Please do. White screens are one of the hardest things to track down and fix and it will help our other users in the future.

[dren]

To answer your question, I did not edit any of the files that construct the page... I have no idea why it's white screening at this point there's nothing in the logs that would indicate that as far as I can tell. Obviously, I'm going to keep working on it since I can't get in and need to ;p

[azcappy]

Is the page totally white or are you getting a partial with no footer? Also... did you recently upgrade phpCOIN to a newer version? What version of phpCOIN? Is it Linux or Windows... what web server and version is it running and what version of PHP? I know these seem like stupid questions but we need the information to even try to help you find the problem.

Another good idea is to look at your web daemon status screen and paste the installed mod line also. That will help us identify a possible installed mod that might be screwing with PHP.

[dren]

I turned on error reporting, and it turned out to be a couple things: an open_basedir restriction and a mod_rewrite rule. The strange thing is it's been working fine for months this way and I don't remember why I had the openbase_dir restriction; and I'll figure out another mod_rewrite rule that won't break things .

Hopefully this is helpful for someone, you should be able to turn on error reporting in any php file like so --

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);

I commented out these lines

# Turn off pointless "warning" messages, and display errors on-screen
# ini_set('error_reporting','E_ALL & ~E_NOTICE');
# ini_set('display_errors', 1);

[azcappy]

Thanks for sharing that. Anything shared is a big help.

Remember... after the death of cantex, it is up to us all to continue developing phpCOIN into something we can all be proud of.