By fighella on

Is anyone interested in investigating my white screen of death? I've just lost a fully functioning Drupal site for no reason I can figure out...

I did try and mess with the robots TXT file... and I added a few modules... but it doesn't make sense why it would kill my whole installation?

Anyone care to have a look or tell me where to start? (ie: what I should have in my base dirs etc...) I have other drupal installs and I tried to match them up but it still doesnt work...

The domain is : http://www.labcraftaustralia.com.au/labcraft

Also can anyone tell me how to run my drupal install from the main directory so I dont have to do a 301 to the sub folder?

All help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks. Jonny

⋅ Categories: Drupal 5.x

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mynamedia’s picture

mynamedia commented

This is probably a memory problem, and probably caused by adding the modules. I don't remember off the top of my head (someone help) but you change somewhere php's limit for memory to allow it for more. I did this and it helped me.

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fighella commented

Just realized something REAL smart too... The installation I was messing with was a 4.7 install and not a 5.1 and I added a 5.1 module to it... might have something to do with it.. but it really stinks that it completely flattened the site ... no warnings or errors.. just bye bye. *sigh* oh well.. we'll see how we go...

any idea how to get content back (ie nodes etc... ) so I can put them in a new install if thats what I end up having to do...

jd

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Torenware commented

Assuming that you didn't do anything to your database trying to figure this out, your data is still there, safe and sound.

All you need to do is delete the module you added (using ftp, most likely). Do that, and you should be just fine.

Rob Thorne
Torenware Networks
http://www.torenware.com

Rob Thorne
Torenware Networks

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fighella commented

Thanks for that. I deleted the module and got back to my info. I learned a valuable lesson. Back it up.

How does Drupal treat the info? Is all the text in the articles in a db??

I understand that all the pictures go into a folder.. but is the actual content of a page actually in a db? or is it just referenced from a db? Ie: If I want to get my articles back another way, is it possible to SAVE the DB and try and import it to a new db? or is it possible to copy a specific folder in my drupal site? This could be useful to understand to better my knowledge of how drupal (mysql and php) work?

Anyhow, Thanks alot for the tips.

I am now wondering if I should even attempt a 4.7 to 5.1 upgrade! *gulp*

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vm commented

How does Drupal treat the info? Is all the text in the articles in a db??

Yes, everything is added into the DB

to avoid this type of situation you should get a copy of php.ini from yoru server, or your host and change memory_limit = 8M , raise the 8M to 16M to allow your site to use more memory.