Install problem - blank screen after DB config

Hello. I am hoping someone can help me with an install error. In short, when installing Dolphin 7.0.0 I get an empty/blank screen after database config.

I am running PHP Version 5.2.12. I have mbstring installed. I turned on display_errors, but do not see any errors. I checked the existing forums for a similar issue, but none of it was any help. I think I have all of the PHP settings correct (egister_globals off, etc)


Here are some screenshots:
http://easycaptures.com/9385228331
http://easycaptures.com/6038575522

I think I am dead in the water. Any ideas? :)

Thanks in advance

yeah install xampp with php version 5.2.9

here's my contributory help. get a host. from the screen shot you are fighting an uphill battle already.

Since we are offering these kinds of suggestions, here is mine.

Windows Bytes.

Use Linux.

Personally, I prefer FreeBSD. But then again, I'm not very cool.

im with deano

give me the little fat penguin FreeBSD Ubuntu anything but w i n d o w s, i use windows to look out in the yard at my babies growing up. LOL

Regards,
DosDawg

Blah Blah Blah... you all wouldnt know a real server if it smacked you up side the head.

depends on what she was serving and what she smacked me in the 'head' with hello.

would you like to restart now that you have changed your php.ini file. whats up.

I'll have you know that I employ the most powerful servers known to man. I manage at least three IBM NetVista's running on Pentium 3 processors at 900 Mhz running dedicated Windows ME in the basement of my parents house.

I mean business.

dude if you are running anything besides as quickly as you can to the dump with windows ME then KUDO's to you.

regards,

DosDawg

Real Server?

You mean the ones that cost so much, no one here could afford them.

I like DosDawgs description of a server.

Anyhoo. Windows just plain sucks, and if i did not need some of the software i run, i would not be using it on my desktop.

And no. I hate wine. I could run it in a vm under linux i suppose. Too much of a headache.

I actually just have one which I use to run the BeOS. I do use some Dell Small Business servers, though. I'm planning on purchasing the T110 shortly (not for anything such as web hosting or RMS, of course).

Best i have is my dual xeon. But that still is not a serious server.

ahhh amd 965 quad with dual boot here... linux and widows 7....

Put it in a big padded box. I'll send you an address where you can ship it.

LOL

 check your email... should be there any day now.   my new one will be here on the 6th :)  cant wait .  stupid holiday set shipping back a few days.

PS thanks dawg.... and guess what  its going to be a windows box just for you.

you are more than welcome dolphin_jay

sorry to hear you are going to desecrate such a possibilty. need to get like mangus, and run ME, yeah thats the shiznit. ME

Regards,

DosDawg

*sidenote* where are mydatery and zarcon yall drink too much last nite?

deano,

i hate wine too, give me a cold miller lite any time. i tried wine one time. gooozbaugh, never again.

can ya tell i am bored?

Regards,
DosDawg

I am having a similar issue on Linux. Running Fedora 12 (php 5.3.1). Brand new install on rackspacecloud with mbstring, imagemagick and php-gd. This time the blank screen appeared after permissions reversal. After couple of tries it went away, but now the dolphin php scripts do not execute.

I get this stuff and when I view source I see actual PHP code:

register_globals is On (warning, you should have this param in Off state, or your site will unsafe)'; $aErrors[] = (ini_get('safe_mode') == 0) ? '' : 'safe_mode is On, disable it'; //$aErrors[] = (ini_get('allow_url_fopen') == 0) ? 'Off (warning, better keep this parameter in On to able register Dolphin' : ''; $aErrors[] = (version_compare(PHP_VERSION, '5.2.0', '<')) ? 'PHP version too old, please update to PHP 5.2.0 at least' : ''; $aErrors[] = (! extension_loaded( 'mbstring')) ? 'mbstring extension not installed. Warning! Dolphin cannot work without mbstring extension.' : ''; if (version_compare(phpversion(), "5.2", ">") == 1) { $aErrors[] = (ini_get('allow_url_include') == 0) ? '' : 'allow_url_include is On (warning, you should have this param in Off state, or your site will unsafe)'; }; $aErrors = array_diff($aErrors, array('')); //delete empty if (count($aErrors)) { $sErrors = implode("
", $aErrors); echo <<
Please go to the
Dolphin Troubleshooter
and solve the problem. EOF; exit; } } /

It seems like PHP is not executing. However, PHP is working just fine. When I create a new php file in the dolphin dir, it works without an issue.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance.

Yours is a simple problem.

All of the dolphin requirements must be met. You missed a requirement.

In this case it is the php.ini option short_open_tags which must be on.

Dolphin uses the short php open tags in most places <?  Instead of <?php thus, php needs to be configured to use the short version.

I have a windows 2003 server with a Celeron processor ...

want it?

Do I have the option of installing Windows ME?

If you cross windows CE

and Windows ME

and Windows NT,

what do you get?

One hell of a brick.

I saw the video for this.

Nearly fell out of my chair. So funny.

We should all congratulate ourselves for successfully hijacking a topic to fill it with Windows rants.

Edit: huzzah.

You know, that's just not fair. Even with all the jokes aside. TowTalk.net has resided on the same server in my office hooked to the net with a T-1 connection since Aug of 05 and has NEVER experienced any downtime because of a server failure. (Well, except that time when I wanted to test the theory of the hot-swap hard drives, lol).

The only reason I don't use it for this is php just isn't that compatible with this specific OS. It takes a ton of tweaking to get it to work properly if you can make it work at all. Plus, my community has grown to a point where the bandwidth I can buy for it personally has been overwhelmed by my users wants and needs. I spend almost $400 a month just to keep it going and in it's current state, it doesn't create any cash flow for me at all. I support the whole thing personally.

Thank you very much. I looked at tech requirements here: http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/DolTech, but did not see anything regarding short_open_tags. That was indeed the problem.

Thanks

Glad to see your problem is now resolved.

Hmmm, yup, it's not in there. Guess they need to update the docs.

It is listed in the page containing recommend php.ini settings. You may want to check that out also.

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/ThingsToKnow

That reminds me.

Does anyone here have edit abilities in the Wiki?

Just lots of blablabla here instead of real helping hand...what a kindergarden !

Your ridiculous quarreling about Windows/Linux sounds like a 5 o'clock tea conversation of some bored housewifes....

Ok, i use a Windows Server and don't want to know about Linux here, i jus want help for the blank screen after install problem that occours on ALL OS...

And NO, i do not want to use XAMPP or anything else like apache or horrible nginx with it's permanent 502/503 but the native MS IIS ! I know Dolphin runs on it fine.

So, during setup i installed all requirements that dolphin asked me and all was green. I get a blank screen anyway. Is there any info abot this known problem and a workaround ?

Using Dolphin 7.3.3 on Windows Server 2012R2, IIS 8.5, PHP 5.6.x,

Have you turned on "display_errors" in your ini?

A white screen is the sign of a 500 error, which will be your configuration.

Oh and do you realize you posted in a 6 year old post? A lot has changed in six years.

If i recall sometimes windows/temp folder needs to have IIS user permissions to write to and from as this is the temp folder php uses.  

I know i had the same problem many times but don't recall if what i said is correct. 

Pretty sure it is a permissions problem when /inc/header.inc.php tries to be created.  

 Thanks Jay.