By "empty page" I assume you mean a completely white/empty page that
you get when the MediaWiki crashes/breaks? You should get an entry in
the Apache error log (different from the access log) when this
happens. If you aren't you may wish to check the "error_reporting" in
php.ini to ensure it is set to an appropriate level. I have mine set
at E_ALL which can result in large logs over time but it does catch a
variety of minor warnings which are sometimes useful in diagnosing
other related problems. If you change this setting make sure you
restart Apache to apply the settings.
On 13 October 2012 09:35, David Gerard <dgerard(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I'm getting reports on
rationalwiki.org of
occasional blank
watchlists. The symptoms are that a completely empty page loads
immediately. It's running 1.19.1 in Ubuntu 10.04 with Apache
2.2.14-ubuntu.
Of course, I changed *two* things last night: (a) cut max memory for
PHP from 256MB to 64MB (b) switched off KeepAlive in Apache. (I'm
quite keen to keep both of these, as the server CPU and memory went
*right* down.)
The confusing thing is the Apache logs don't show any "200 0" for
Special:Watchlist, at all. So either it's serving something that
renders as a blank page, or something before Apache, which should be
nothing whatsoever, is showing a blank page. I see a few "200 0" for
other pages. A bit over 1% of all connections give a 408 request
timeout - but the request timeout is 300 seconds, which is quite huge
enough.
I've asked people having the problem to email me with their IP and the
time, so I can go log-grovelling. But has anyone else seen this, and
what caused it?
- d.
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