Topic: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

At some point today, my forum simply disappeared.  The files are all there, but nothing displays.  I deleted and uploaded every the files again, and reinstalled, and even with a fresh installation, nothing displays.

heres the link: http://www.soulscore.com/forum/

I upgraded to 1.2.10 two weeks ago, and haven't had any other issues since.

any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Hi Clay,

The files are there: http://www.soulscore.com/forum/style/Oxygen.css

That is strange, it ouputs nothing.

Offtopic: How do you like Plogger, any problems?

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

I uploaded the package into a new directory and everything works fine.  Am I correct in thinking that some htaccess file is to blame?  If so, can anyone point me in a good direction to learn more about these files to correct the problem?

4 (edited by clay.harris 2005-12-04 03:02)

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

So now, when I click on a topic, all i see is, in Times New Roman is "Board Footer"

http://www.soulscore.com/f/

Any help?

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Well, I can't see how this would be, but from the source, it looks like you're loading header.php directly (impossible) and then dying when you try to load the quickjump stuff.
Do me a favor, in admin options, disable the quickjump and see what happens

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

That did it.  What could have caused that?  And, though I'm not exactly sure what the quickjump does, how can I fix it?

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Wow, that's really odd :-/
Try deleting the .htaccess file from the cache folder and re-enabling quickjump
If it doesn't work, put the file back and disable it again

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

I've been having lots of problems in the past few days / week.  Is there anything I can do to track if files that may have be maliciously manipulated?  I'm running 1.2.10...

thanks for you help,
clay

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

deleting the .htaccess solved the problem, and quickjump is back on and all is working.  any ideas on what could have happened?

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Well, it sounds like Apache choked on the .htaccess file

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Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

I currently have the same problem (http://www.c404.net/forum) and I deleted the .htaccess file but it still doesn't work.

Hopefully it's just a temporary problem?

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

i ended up putting the board in a new directory, and pointing it to my existing dbase.

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Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Well, it still doesn't work. The problem is also the same at the other forum which is not even punbb related but it's a phpbb forum. These are all on the same server so I guess it's a server problem sad

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Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Well, I'm glad to have found this thread -- I was experiencing the "board footer" problem mentioned above and turning off the quickjump returned everything to normal.

15 (edited by HaVoC 2006-02-25 02:10)

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

I've got the same problem.

I went to cPanel and found that one part of the database was throwing up an error, so I changed the database type and checked/repaired it.

No dice.

So I moved all the forum files into a new directory.

Still no luck.

Finally, I've tried deleting the .htaccess file.

STILL doesn't work.

Any ideas?



EDIT: The URLs are http://www.teamsnafu.org/forums/ (old) and http://www.teamsnafu.org/forum/ (new).

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Things silently failing are annoying :-/
Have you edited any files?

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Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

I've added a couple of mods but it was all up and running with mods in place.

I came back to it a day later and it was down.

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Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

If your mods effect a lang file that could be the problem every lang command has to be the right spacing or you'll get a blank page.

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Jimi wrote:

If your mods effect a lang file that could be the problem every lang command has to be the right spacing or you'll get a blank page.

I've never heard of that, or maybe I'm just not understanding what you're saying. Could you give an example?

HaVoC: Try deleting all your cache files, see if that does anything

20 (edited by HaVoC 2006-02-25 19:49)

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Ah hah, deleting the cache files worked!

How do I stop this from happening again?

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Very interesting
If it happens again, just post: I'll be looking into this bug

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Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Certainly will do smile

23 (edited by Jimi 2006-02-25 19:58)

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Smartys wrote:
Jimi wrote:

If your mods effect a lang file that could be the problem every lang command has to be the right spacing or you'll get a blank page.

I've never heard of that, or maybe I'm just not understanding what you're saying. Could you give an example?

HaVoC: Try deleting all your cache files, see if that does anything

'Index'                    =>    'Index',
'User list'                =>    'User list',
'Rules'                    =>  'Rules',
'Search'                =>  'Search',
'Register'                =>  'Register',
'Login'                    =>  'Login',
'Not logged in'            =>  'You are not logged in.',
'Profile'                =>    'Profile',
'Logout'                =>    'Logout',
'Logged in as'            =>    'Logged in as',
'Admin'                    =>    'Administration',
'Last visit'            =>    'Last visit',
'Show new posts'        =>    'Show new posts since last visit',
'Mark all as read'        =>    'Mark all topics as read',
'Link separator'        =>    '',    // The text that separates links in the navigator

Is what A lang file should look like with proper spacing.

But If you did something like. (look at index)


'Index'    =>    'Index',
'User list'                =>    'User list',
'Rules'                    =>  'Rules',
'Search'                =>  'Search',
'Register'                =>  'Register',
'Login'                    =>  'Login',
'Not logged in'            =>  'You are not logged in.',
'Profile'                =>    'Profile',
'Logout'                =>    'Logout',
'Logged in as'            =>    'Logged in as',
'Admin'                    =>    'Administration',
'Last visit'            =>    'Last visit',
'Show new posts'        =>    'Show new posts since last visit',
'Mark all as read'        =>    'Mark all topics as read',
'Link separator'        =>    '',    // The text that separates links in the navigator

any page with the navlink 'index' wont display. or at least that's what I have noticed.

Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

That doesn't mean the page will go completely blank wink

And it displays just fine for me

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Re: Forum Not Displaying - Page Blank!

Digging around further I found that the cache folder was mostly filled with quickjump-related files, and they were by far the largest (up to 5Kb or so in size, and there were 3 of them I think).

I've removed them and disabled quickjump - we'll see if it happens again. Perhaps the quickjump cache files became too big?