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#15356 Whitescreen front and back

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Latest post by nicholas on Friday, 08 March 2013 09:12 CST

user60808

Mandatory information about my setup:

Have I read the related troubleshooter articles above before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Have I searched the tickets before posting? Yes
Have I read the documentation before posting (which pages?)? Yes
Joomla! version: (2.5)
PHP version: (5.2.7)
MySQL version: (unknown)
Host: (FastHosts)
Admin Tools version: (unknown)

Description of my issue:

Strange problem - 2 days ago I noticed my site had whitescreened at the front and at the back meaning I couldn't gain access.
I reported this to my hosts FastHost, who had no idea how to solve the problem. however they told me that many other users had reported the same problem
After much digging around I found that there has been a Centos/RedHat update to some servers which has caused this problem. See the RocketTheme blog here which describes this >http://www.rockettheme.com/blog/extensions/1753-warning-domdocumentschemavalidate-error

I have tried everything I can think of so now really stuck at what to do?
I have a very old backup (Oct 2012) which I have uploaded to a different server, and although I received the error as shown over at RocketTheme, I was able to comment ut the line which brought the site backup.

Can anyone shed any light on this, or has it also happened to you?

My site is http://www.bignetpark.co.uk. I've inserted a basic html file, but if you view source of http://www.bignetpark.co.uk/index.php there's nothing there?

I was using Joomla 2.5, PHP 5.2.7, RocketTheme Voxel template, Zoo component and ZooLanders extensions and have Akeeba Admin Tools and Backup installed
Thanks in advance, Andrea

nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager

I'd say that we need to first find out WHERE the issue is occurring, then try to work around it instead of having you restore your site to an older version which may or may not work (and most likely cause you grief). OK, see, a white page or a page with a 500 Internal Server Error is, in fact, either a .htaccess issue to a PHP fatal error in disguise.

First, check your server's error logs (not the access logs) immediately after visiting the page which throws the error. There should be an exact description of the PHP fatal error which occurred. Sometimes you can find the error messages in files called error_log or error.log inside the site's root and/or administrator directories. If unsure about the error log location, please consult your host. Most likely the error logs are available in your site's cPanel, Plesk control panel or similar hosting account management facility.

If your host does not give you access to the error logs and you have access to the Joomla! administrator area, please log in to your site's back-end, go to Global Configuration, click on the Server tab and set the Error Reporting to Maximum (Joomla! 1.5) or Development (Joomla! 2.x and later). Try visiting the problem page again.

If you still get a blank page, edit your configuration.php file and put the following code right after the final closing curly brace ( this is what a curly brace looks like --> } ) but before the closing PHP tag (it looks like ?> that is a question mark and a greater-than sign):

ini_set( 'display_errors', true );
error_reporting( E_ALL ); 

Try visiting the problem page again.

If you still get a white page, please remote the two lines from your configuration.php file. Edit the .htaccess file in your site's root. If you don't have a file named .htaccess create a new one. Beware that htaccess.txt is a DIFFERENT FILE and will NOT work! Add the following to the end of the file:

php_flag display_errors On
php_value error_reporting 32767

and retry loading the problem page.

If you still get a white page, remove the two lines from your .htaccess file. Now, create a file called php.ini with the following content:

display_errors=on
error_reporting=E_ALL

and upload it into your site's root and your site's administrator directory. Retry loading the problem page.

IMPORTANT: Sometimes the error won't show. Edit your configuration.php and find the line starting with public $error_reporting and set it to:

public $error_reporting = 'development';


This instructs Joomla! to enable maximum error, warnings and notices verbosity. In 99.9% of cases it will result in the error messages being shown on the browser.

Please note that if you can not understand what the PHP error message means, just copy and paste it here verbatim so that we can take a look and point you to the right direction.

Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos

Lead Developer and Director

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