Installation not working - blank page

[cormac]

Hi

I'm trying to install Serendipity on my site but I keep on getting a blank page after I submit the 'Simple Installation' page and the 'Expert Installation' page doesn't render itself fully

I have green on pretty much everything on serendipity_admin.php
The url is http://www.newtotown.ie/blogs/serendipity_admin.php

Even if you put in a fake name for the database you still get the same error (a blank page) after the simple installation.

Any ideas?

Thanks.
Cormac

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

A blank page usually means some fatal PHP error. Can you inspect the server (error) logs or turn the php.ini 'display_errors' directive on?

HTH,
Garvin

[cormac]

>>turn the php.ini 'display_errors' directive on?

Hi

That's been done! Thanks for your help!

[cormac]

Hi Garvinhicking

Did you get a chance to check out the error? It's still not working

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Oh, I thought you fixed it yourself, your recent posting didn't really reveal you wanted me to have a look.

If I call the page, I don't see any errors there. So it doesn't seem as if the errors are displayed yet. Please check your PHP errorlog and the Apache error_log for clues. Contact your sysadmin if you don't know where to find those.

I suppose it must be a network timeout or missing extension/fget/disabled function issue.

Best regards,
Garvin

[cormac]

Hi Garvin
Sorry for the confusion!

Anyway here's a line from the site logs I think is relevant to the problem, any idea what it might mean?

[Mon Apr 23 09:35:31 2007] [error] [client 192.251.125.85] client denied by server configuration: /home/newtotown/www/blogs/serendipity_config.inc.php


The full logs are at http://www.newtotown.ie/logs/

Thanks!
Cormac

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

Hm, I never heard that error log entry, but I think this could be responsible! Please ask your server admin where this line comes from and how to bypass/fix it!

The logs there only show the apache errors, you might need to check out the PHP error log (its location is configured in php.ini) as well.

Maybe serendipity' automatic .htaccess facility is making trouble for your webserver. In that case, try to put an empty .htaccess file in your s9y directory and see if that helps something?

Regards,
Garvin

[cormac]

Hi Garvin

Well I finally got it installed, not sure what the problem was but I think my hosts made some changes to the server config, anyway it's set up and running now *but* when i try add a comment to a blog it just hangs for a minute or so and when I go back to the comments page the somment I posted isn't there. Any idea what tis might be?

The url is http://www.newtotown.ie/blogs

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

This might depend on your spamblock-settings. How did you configure the Spamblock event plugin? If you try to disable it, does commenting work?

Regards,
Garvin

[cormac]

Yes, I can post fine then. However I'm leaving myself open to spam. Is there a way of fixing this so that I can post and avoid spam?

[garvinhicking]

Hi!

That would depend on your spamblock settings, which did you enable?

Especially those that need to open network connections (Akismet, remote URL checking, SURBL/DNSBL) should be reponsible for your problem because it might be that your server is being firewalled.

Best regards,
Garvin

[cormac]

I uninstalled off the plugin then reinstalled it and set it going with the default settings and that seems to have worked ok. so fingers crossed its all ok now!