cotonti.com : Blank page after 0.0.6 update

Ross

Fri, 18 Dec 2009 01:49:27 -0000

Thank you,HarryRag.

I fixed it - or rather, Kort helped me to fix it up! THANK YOU, Kort.
He understood that my server cannot connect to Cotonti.com and that caused a problem with the QuickAdminView Plugin.

In config.php I had the variable TRUE here:

$cfg['check_updates'] = FALSE;			// Automatically check for updates, set it TRUE to enable

For my server it must be FALSE less part of Admin doesn't work and gives a blank page.

I do want to say thank you to Kort and just write here our solution in case somebody else has the same problem in the future.

HarryRag

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:15:13 -0000

I had something the same with the "Homepage" plugin and the index not showing up, in the plugin files was the location of the .tpl file written in it /plugins/homepage/tpl (or some like that), by changing that to the correct new place /skins/youskin/plugins fixed the problem for me.
After that the normal index showed up again.

Ross

Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:13:35 -0000

Hello everybody. I cancelled all the old Cotonti 0.0.6 from my personal web site and installed Cotonti 0.6.5
The problem is, I get the admin page BLANK!

I tried all the solution you gave me in this thread in the past - however it was another server that time. Nothing works!
I also tried to copy again the admin folder in the sed-light skin - no success.
I also tried to install another skin - it worked but again admin page was blank also in it.

How can I fix that?

thanks

foxhound

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 18:16:05 -0000

Just make sure it is clear with uninstall a complete folder removal is meant. Uninstalling the plugin from the admin panel only is not enough (it was not installed on my test site at all).

Lombi

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 06:55:32 -0000

Yeah, sorry noone mentioned it sooner but first step in an defected upgrade once you've gone over the upgrade steps 20 times and you're sure you didnt miss it (unfortunately it has happened that even after 20 tries certain people still didnt read all of the steps) ... then the correct thing is to uninstall all hooking plugins.

By all hooking plugins I mean plugins that hook to the specific problem area (like index.tags which you probably had now), then reinstall them one by one until you find the little bugger.

I wasnt aware that t3 indexer actually had an index hook (heck, it's a directory-file-shower).

Good to know.

We should definately have a plugins-not-totally-working-on-a-better-cms section

foxhound

Sun, 23 Aug 2009 05:41:44 -0000

After many hours of repatching/updating and every time with the same result I finally found the file causing this. It is none of the above.

If you have a plugin in your plugins folder called "index" (T3 File Indexor) by Chris T even if it is not installed will cause your homepage to not show.
Rename it or just remove it from your plugins folder and your homepage will show.

Trustmaster

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:41:47 -0000

Check if datas/cache and its subfolders has chmod 777. If it doesn't help, try disabling $cfg['xtpl_cache'] in datas/config.php

foxhound

Fri, 21 Aug 2009 03:15:46 -0000

# Trustmaster : You have missed the first step from here:

There was nothing there when I updated as I did manually add the folders and were not even on my test site, but I even checked that just to be sure. Folder was empty.
Immediatly after applying 0.6.1 I applied 0.6.2 (according th readme)

Anyway, people here always seem to doubt my updating skills so I reverted back to an earlier DB version (0.0.5) and did all the patching up to 0.6.2 again.........same result. My homepage is still empty. All white, nothing there except header, nav bar and footer.
Forums, search etc all work, just not the homepage.

To revert back to 0.0.5 (for the DB) would I have to even put back the 0.0.5 core files? Put the DB back, update the DB and corefiles step by step again?
My maintenance mode is on while doing the patching. Could that cause the issues?

# SunChase : try turning off the news plugin

Not only did I replace all plugin files I also disabled them all, same result, the homepage stays empty.

SunChase

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 21:30:11 -0000

try turning off the news plugin

Trustmaster

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:05:22 -0000

You have missed the first step from here:

Updating from 0.6.1:
1. Remove all files from your datas/cache/templates

foxhound

Wed, 19 Aug 2009 06:50:34 -0000

I am stuck with kind of the same since updating to Genoa 0.6.2

My whole site works however it will just not show the homepage. Nothing except the header with the navbar and than the footer. Nothing in between.
I have replaced all core files. I have replaced all plugins. I have replaced all sed_light skin files.
I have replaced the config.php with the sample file.
I have commented that error log thingy but it shows no errors at all.
I guess its time to seek help.

I can acces the forums, the download section, search, adminqv everything. Just not homepage.

Here is how it looks:

[edit]
The picture above is of the default cotonti skin. It has the same result with our skin we use.
And here is how the homepage should look:
http://www.armaholic.com/index.php

Ross

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:38:14 -0000

Hooray!
It works now - no blank page and I was able to register.

Thank you, guys. You all rock!

Trustmaster

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:55:58 -0000

Try it without gzip:

/* ======== Gzip and output filtering ======== */
ob_start();

ob_start('sed_outputfilters');

Ross

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:42:06 -0000

Default skin and language.

I tried Seditio yesterday and got the same errors - blank page.

Trustmaster

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 01:05:59 -0000

That means either it still has some errors (although I can't see any), or output buffering goes crazy on this host and doesn't flush. Have you tried installing Seditio there? It uses pretty same output buffering. Another thing that might happen is having invalid characters in skin files or language files. But it is not likely to happen with default skin and English.

Ross

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:54:32 -0000

# Trustmaster : I have just downloaded 0.6.1 package in all 3 formats and unpacked them. The datas/cache/templates is present there. Probably it is your FTP program which just didn't upload it.

Added 4 minutes later:

You need to uncomment those lines back in system/common.php, that is why you can't register.

If I uncomment them, I got the initial problem again - a blank page with two small squares.

SunChase

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:27:46 -0000

hm.By default when there is an update from one version to another there should be some file,named patch.php(or similar).It could be in the sql folder.The session problem could be caused by this.

If you havent done this,do the next things:
copy this patch file to the root folder of your site
name it patch.php
goto yoursite/patch.php
it will say Patch complete

If this isnt it i dont know what to advice to you.By myself i have a similar problem(but not with registration and i have a much earlier Cotonti installed)

Trustmaster

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:21:08 -0000

I have just downloaded 0.6.1 package in all 3 formats and unpacked them. The datas/cache/templates is present there. Probably it is your FTP program which just didn't upload it.

Added 4 minutes later:

You need to uncomment those lines back in system/common.php, that is why you can't register.

Ross

Sat, 15 Aug 2009 00:07:01 -0000

WOW thank you.

I got it working thanks to you.

Here it is the solution:

I downloaded the latest i.e. Cotonti Genoa 0.6.1 and there's no folder named cache nor a skins or templates folder inside it. Install.txt doesn't say to create it, does it??

So, I created the two folders ("chache" and "templates") inside "datas" and chmod them to 777.

I already had the other folders chmoed to 777.

It looks it is working. Now I register and see what happens.

Thank you but we should add the two folders to the package or tell about their creation in the installation file.

Added 10 minutes later:

I cannot register. It says: Your session has expired. Please try again.

I searched in the forum and found it used to be an issue with 0.6
Hasn't it be fixed now? What should I do?

SunChase

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:53:34 -0000

if you updated from earlier version of cotonti(like 0.0.6 or earlier) than you should have created in the datas folder a folder named cache , and in the cache folder - a skins folder.

than you should have added to the datas/config.php you should have added atleast this:
$cfg['xtpl_cache'] = TRUE;
$cfg['html_cleanup'] = TRUE;
$cfg['cache_dir'] = './datas/cache';

................

also i noticed that on your site this message appears:
Fatal error: Uncaught exception 'Exception' with message 'Your "./datas/cache/templates/" is not writable'

in /home/content/a/l/e/alek4ca/html/system/xtemplate.php:172 Stack trace: #0 /home/content/a/l/e/alek4ca/html/system/xtemplate.php(39): XTemplate->restart('skins/sed-light...') #1 /home/content/a/l/e/alek4ca/html/system/header.php(92): XTemplate->__construct('skins/sed-light...') #2 /home/content/a/l/e/alek4ca/html/system/core/index/index.inc.php(34): require_once('/home/content/a...') #3 /home/content/a/l/e/alek4ca/html/index.php(20): require_once('/home/content/a...') #4 {main} thrown in /home/content/a/l/e/alek4ca/html/system/xtemplate.php on line 172

this could be caused by the thing a at the begining(about the cache folder)
but also it could be caused by the hosts system.It this case you should login on your host members area,then click on 'File manager(i dont know how its called in your host-site)',select all of the files and folders and click on a 'Edit' button,where you should have 'File right' - there should be some field with numbers like '775'-change it to 777

Ross

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 23:25:46 -0000

There is no "./datas/cache/templates/" in my package!?

SunChase

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:33:17 -0000

the first link sais that there is a problem with the skin files

"message 'Your "./datas/cache/templates/" is not writable'"
the host runs on a linux os.You need to open the site files with the hosts file manager or something,what will give you an opportunity to change the access to the files and folders to CHMOD 777

Ross

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 22:23:56 -0000

this is the blank page I get - it is not completely blank... http://www.zeeprogram.com/
and for the php info: http://www.zeeprogram.com/info.php

I'll try your recommendation.

---
No successful. Please, read the error message I get. I have no clue

Trustmaster

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 21:15:38 -0000

How about letting us take a look at that phpinfo page?

The page gets blank when there are some PHP errors but output buffer prevents them from popping up. You can temporarily disable it by commenting these lines in system/common.php:

/* ======== Gzip and output filtering ======== */
/*
if ($cfg['gzip'])
{ @ob_start('ob_gzhandler'); }
else
{ ob_start(); }

ob_start('sed_outputfilters');
*/

Then you should see the error messages.

Ross

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 08:25:18 -0000

Yes, it is specific to that host which is the free hosting of godaddy.com

Added 12 hours 39 minutes later:

Ok, an update. Puzzled about my incapacity to install it, I tried again. First off, I uploaded a php info page.
SURPRISE
the php on GoDaddy.com server is a whoopping 5.2.8

So, again - why I get a blank page? If I look into the source, there is nothing. Like if something is blocking it.

Trustmaster

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:28:05 -0000

5.0.67 looks like a MySQL version, not PHP. Is your problem specific to that host?

Ross

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 04:17:25 -0000

I discovered the fault is mine - i.e. of this server. It is PHP 5.0.67!
Sorry

Packages were Cotonti Genesis 0.0.5 and Genoa 0.6.1
Now I trying with Seditio 121 (yep...)

Trustmaster

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:30:16 -0000

What exact package do you try install?

Ross

Thu, 13 Aug 2009 21:22:24 -0000

I have not been able to install either Siena latest edition or Cotonti latest edition. I keep getting a blank page. I know how to install Cotonti and I did that many times in the past. What's wrong?

donP

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 15:47:15 -0000

Look at the post upadates ... mine it was a plugin error...

Dave

Fri, 07 Aug 2009 14:37:36 -0000

in my opinion some parts of "core" have changed or simply tpl ... im working much last days etc but ill try to look closer to it... (dont expect much lol)

donP

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:34:11 -0000

We are so many with this blank pages problem in Cotonti 0.6.1...

Look!: http://www.cotonti.com/forums.php?m=posts&q=3118

What's happening?

Dave

Thu, 06 Aug 2009 22:06:08 -0000

i have also this probl ... after i moved @ 0 6 1 ...

http://ev.toster.net/plug.php?e=q3roster

http://ev.toster.net/plug.php?e=npq3plug

Triton

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 14:48:37 -0000

This also happened to me, when I updated Cotonti on a test server I received 'Unclosed Header tag', so I checked my header.tpl and realized I forgot to include . So I added that and fixed the problem. Buuuut when I updated Cotonti on a site in Maintenance mode all that appeared was a blank page, no messages. so I was searching around (Mainly users.tpl, header, index and footer) and found I forgot in users.tpl, so I added that and the problem fixed, but there was no error message like on the test server o0

DemptD

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 13:11:53 -0000

# Trustmaster : Could you tell us what the reason was?

I had the http://trac.cotonti.com/ticket/127 running and i had to remove the mysql for that.

Trustmaster

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 12:20:44 -0000

Could you tell us what the reason was?

minoation

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:42:19 -0000

Nice site btw.

DemptD

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 08:08:28 -0000

Ok got that fixed, thanks Trustmaster.

Trustmaster

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 05:00:33 -0000

Try commenting output buffering in system/common.php to see error messages:

/*if ($cfg['gzip'])
{ @ob_start('ob_gzhandler'); }
else
{ ob_start(); }

ob_start('sed_outputfilters');*/

AerialAngel

Fri, 17 Jul 2009 03:42:37 -0000

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