On Apr 21, 2004, at 14:04, Mike Dickson wrote:
I have run through the install process on my Debian
box using the web
installer thing, and all I get for my troubles is a blank page…well
not entirely blank, it contains the following:
<html><body></body></html>
Does the page actually output that, or is that just what Mozilla shows
in View Source? (Mozilla will show <html><body></body></html> when
there is *no output at all* from the web server.)
* Installation directory: /var/www/internal/wiki
* Script URI path:
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Ahh, that's interesting.... but seems ok.
…which I dutifully do, resulting the aforementioned
blank page. I’d
debug it if I could find *any* info on how to turn on debugging, or
where debugging messages go to L certainly nothing is going in the
webserver logs.
You could set $wgDebugLogFile = "/tmp/wikilog"; or such. (Must be
writable by the web server.)
Anyone seen this before? Is it a database thing?
We've had vague reports which no developer has been able to reproduce,
and nobody experiencing it has debugged it themselves. :(
Check that everything in LocalSettings.php is correct. Check the
hostname. Check the paths. Check the permissions on the directories.
Check that the mysql user account was set up and that you can log in
with those settings. Use a packet sniffer, the "Live HTTP headers"
extension for Firefox, or just telnet to port 80 to poke at it and see
exactly what it returns. Try different pages. Try special pages. Try
edit pages. Try changing the $wgArticlePath to "$wgScript?title=$1".
Try stepping through with a debugger. Try adding die("Got to this
point") statements all over the place until you see where it stops.
Check your PHP configuration. (Any non-standard settings? Safe mode?
File open limitations? Etc?) Try running the script from the command
line. Try turning error reporting settings up or down.
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)