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My site - http://www.softdynamic.com - has a strange problem - if I open the front page in IE 6 and then hit refresh a few times, a blank page is shown. This has been reported by a few users as well. I wasn't able to reproduce the problem under FireFox - neither in Windows nor in Linux. I tried from different networks - same result. Any ideas? I have disabled most of the modules...
I am using GoDaddy for hosting.
Status report:
Drupal 5.1
Configuration file Protected
Cron maintenance tasks Last run 1 hour 44 sec ago
You can run cron manually.
Database schema Up to date
Drupal core update status Up to date
Module update status Up to date
MySQL database 4.0.27
PHP 5.1.4
Unicode library PHP Mbstring Extension
Web server Apache
Comments
Request the data from the
Request the data from the apache logs if you do not have access to that for you site already. Those should contain the error message for php's "white screen of death".
Cache?
I disabled all caching and it solved the problem. Having no cache is not an issue for me - the site is quite low-traffic, but what about other sites?
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http://www.SoftDynamic.com
I also have same problem
I also have same problem with my site. If I hit refresh in IE6 or IE7, the pages turned blank. But it does not happen so in Firefox and goes away when I turn the cache off. I don't want to turn off the cache - is there a way to solve this without turning off the cache? I currently use 4.7; but I tested it with 5.1 and I still have the same issue. I also use Godaddy hosting.
thanks a lot,
steve
can anybody please help!!
can anybody please help!!
blank pages in IE
I have the same problem. I came across several references to this occurring when there are unclosed tags, so I ran this html validator - http://validator.w3.org/
Result - tons of issues (like 92 errors, just on the front page!) Oops...
Anyway, the problem that seemed most important was a fatal error connected to the Firestats module. Disabling this module has eliminated the blank pages...more of a 'fix' than a fix - I like Firestats...btw, I am running 4.7. Now to see if there is a Firestats fix...
good luck!
Found that others are having the same experience - http://drupal.org/node/101066
but no fix as yet.
I don't think it has to do
I don't think it has to do with W3C validation, but it has to do with caching system of drupal. I saved the page as html and when I refresh the page in IE, the page doesnot go blank. It also does not go blank when I turned off the cache. So there is something wrong with drupal caching system - but I don't know what. I will very very appreciate if anyone can help me out! Thanks.
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cache is working fine for me, I'd take the advice given and run your code through a validator as previously explained to see what kinds of errors you are recieveing with regards to the HTML being used.
if you clear the cache tables in the database, then you can rule out cache as being the issue. Especially consideirng its only used for anon users when cache is set to off.
Just because you saved your page, as an html page, and it worked does not mean that something in your HTML isn't interferring with Drupal's. Matter of fact, your removal to a standard HTML file, would point directly to that as being the cause. IE is far less forgiving then FF is.
I have found the root of the
I have found the root of the problem. This problem is Godaddy Specific. Sites hosted in shared hosting (economy hosting plan) of Godaddy has this serious bug for drupal sites for IE. I tested with other site hosted at other place and the problem does not appear - even if there is HTML validation errors and cache is enabled.
Update (May 8, 2007): Applying the lock table fix as mentioned here solved the problem. Now, the pages don't go blank in IE even if the cache is enabled. Thanks everyone!
SOLVED
http://drupal.org/node/248827#comment-1590460