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Blank screen upon admin login.
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 5:42 pm
by isaacd
Hello CMSMS Community.
My System:
-CMSMS 1.8.2
-PHP 5
-Database uses MySQL
-Hosted on Linux
The Problem:
Upon logging in from the admin login page, I get a blank screen. There is absolutely nothing when I view the source. I also had this problem for the frontend of the site, but that was solved by uploading a back-up index.php file to the root of the installation. I have tried uploading the backup of the admin directory, and that did not solve it.
One thing to consider: is it required for all of the files in the uploads directory to have executable by world permissions?
Thanks in advance,
Isaac.
Re: Blank screen upon admin login.
Posted: Sat Nov 06, 2010 6:33 pm
by Dr.CSS
Make sure you don't have some old htaccess file in root or index.html in there and no just the uploads folder and the uploads/images folder...
Re: Blank screen upon admin login.
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 12:12 am
by isaacd
I did find some .htaccess files whose code was as follows:
Code: Select all
# To deny PHPs
<Files ~ "\.(php|php3|php4|php5|phtml|pl|cgi)$">
order deny,allow
deny from all
</Files>
These were in the plugins, doc, and images directory. The images directory is
not uploads/images, but simply images.
I tried getting rid of these and it didn't change anything, so I put them back.
Just to detail more about what happens, if I type in an incorrect user/password combination, then I get rejected the way I ought to.
I'm not sure what you are trying to say with "and no just the uploads folder and the uploads/images folder...." Do you mean that there should not be index.html files in the uploads and uploads/images directories?
Thanks.
Isaac
Re: Blank screen upon admin login.
Posted: Tue Nov 09, 2010 8:23 am
by Dr.CSS
The only htaccess file that would mess with this would be in the root of the site, no htaccess file in a folder of the root is going to do this...
One thing to consider: is it required for all of the files in the uploads directory to have executable by world permissions?
no just the uploads folder and the uploads/images folder...
Re: Blank screen upon admin login.
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 5:15 am
by isaacd
The problem seems to have fixed itself... or maybe I did something that fixed it without realizing it. Anyhow, I would say that this is solved unless it comes up again.
Re: Blank screen upon admin login.
Posted: Wed Nov 10, 2010 8:03 pm
by Dr.CSS
Re: Blank screen upon admin login.
Posted: Thu Nov 11, 2010 2:49 am
by calguy1000
a) Problems don't 'fix themselves' (well not these problems)
Your host probably noticed the error and changed something.
b) if CMSMS generates a blank screen it usually means that some fatal error has occurred
you need to read your logs. or sometimes enabling debug mode will tell you what the error is.