Post install blank page and no errors in logs

[aontech]

Okay, I've been beating my head on this all day yesterday and today. I cannot figure out what I am doing wrong. Details:

index.php:

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error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', 'on');

require_once('/home/username/public_html/xataface/dataface-public-api.php');
df_init(__FILE__, '/home/username/public_html/xataface');
$app =& Dataface_Application::getInstance();
$app->display;

conf.ini:

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[_database]
host = "localhost"
user = "user_fow"
password = "**********"
name = "user_FacultyOfWidgetry"

[_tables]
Course = "Course"
Program = "Program"

In the index.php, I've tried every imaginable combination of relative and explicit paths I can think of. This is on a cPanel server, so Apache logs are in /usr/local/apache/logs/error_log ... no errors except for the missing favicon.ico

This works without error also:

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require_once('../xataface/dataface-public-api.php');
df_init(__FILE__, 'xataface');

... and this:

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require_once('../xataface/dataface-public-api.php');
df_init(__FILE__, '/xataface');

If I change the require_once or df_init paths to this:

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require_once('xataface/dataface-public-api.php');
df_init(__FILE__, '/xataface');

... I get this error displayed:

Warning: require_once(xataface/dataface-public-api.php) [function.require-once]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/username/public_html/fow/index.php on line 5

Fatal error: require_once() [function.require]: Failed opening required 'xataface/dataface-public-api.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/username/public_html/fow/index.php on line 5

And Apache error_log shows no error.

Oh, the link to: www.aonx.net/xataface/dataface_info.php works fine and says I'm good to go.

Safe Mode = Off
Open BaseDir = Not permitted

The server does run suExec/suhosin in case that matters. I own the server so I have access to everything. I f someone can see what I obviously cannot, I would be most appreciative of some guidance.

[aontech]

I've been reading ... blank page ... no Apache errors in log other than the missing favicon.ico ... did a view source and checked to see if anything ... nothing.

I also re-uploaded some of the files ... no change.

I also tried to run the ./makefile, but since I am root on the server, I get a permission denied error. I'm not sure how to get around that.

[aontech]

Okay ... I set myself up a shell account ... fixed the permissions on makesite and successfully ran the script ... and it made the same files I created manually ... and I still get a blank page with an empty view source. I really need some ideas as I've run out of options and ideas.

[shannah]

So what you are saying is that:
1. You get a blank white screen.
2. There are no errors in the error log.

This is tricky. Do you have any files in there other than conf.ini and index.php?

Make sure that your templates_c directory is writable by the webserver.

What version of PHP, MySQL, Web Server, OS, Xataface are you using?

[aontech]

So what you are saying is that:

1. You get a blank white screen. Yes.
2. There are no errors in the error log. There are no errors in the Apache error log in /usr/local/apache/logs

This is tricky. Do you have any files in there other than conf.ini and index.php? In the webroot there's an index.html "under construction" page. In the app directory — fow — there's conf.ini, error_log, .htaccess, and index.php

The last entry in the Xataface error_log is:

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[04-Oct-2009 22:17:52] PHP Warning:  require_once(xataface/dataface-public-api.php) [<a>function.require-once</a>]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /home/username/public_html/fow/index.php on line 5
[04-Oct-2009 22:17:52] PHP Fatal error:  require_once() [<a>function.require</a>]: Failed opening required 'xataface/dataface-public-api.php' (include_path='.:/usr/lib/php:/usr/local/lib/php') in /home/username/public_html/fow/index.php on line 5

Make sure that your templates_c directory is writable by the webserver. It is, chmod 0777 and confirmed by running dataface_info.php

What version of PHP, MySQL, Web Server, OS, Xataface are you using?
PHP 5.2.9
MySQL 5.0.81
Web Server: cPanel 11.24.5
Apache 2.2.11
OS: CentOS 5 Enterprise
Xataface 1.2.1

Steve ... is there the possibility I need to re-upload the .php pages? I normally upload everything is binary mode, which hasn't caused any problems elsewhere, but right now everything is in the air to be sorted out. I can re-upload all of the .php and .js files in text mode and see if that makes a difference. If you need access to the machine, let me know and I'll PM you a login.

Thank you for your help!

[shannah]

Steve ... is there the possibility I need to re-upload the .php pages?

Sounds like a logical next step. It is strange that you're not getting any errors. Very strange.

If you want to email me some login details i can take a look.

-Steve

[shannah]

steve@weblite.ca

[aontech]

The error is in the index.php file:

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$app->display;

This should be:

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$app->display();

Missing ().
Works great now.