Blank page after fresh installation

DTHUREGRIF · October 30th, 2009, 02:02 AM

I've just installed vBulletin and vBGallery on a brand new site, and while vBG gave no indications of error during installation, following the link from the forums to the gallery results in a blank page. The server is issuing a '200 OK' header and a content length header with a value of 20 (bytes), but viewing the source of the page shows nothing at all. There are no errors being emitted into the Apache error logs.

How might I go about debugging this installation?

Chuck S · October 30th, 2009, 08:04 AM

Did you place the proper server path to vbulletin in the config file on the $forumpath line?

DTHUREGRIF · October 30th, 2009, 03:23 PM

Thanks for the reply, which pointed me in the right direction. It was actually a typo in the config file name that got me.

This leave me to wonder if it might be good to add some kind of error response in cases in which the configuration file is not found, perhaps emitted on STDERR so the HTTP server can log it. Just a thought...

Again, thanks!

Chuck S · October 30th, 2009, 05:44 PM

well not much we can do that all depends on your server setup php setup etc. Some PHP setups would report the error others just return a blank page.