By lionheart8 on

For quite a while I thought generally all changes made to blocks are not being saved, but today I discovered it's enabling or disabling blocks is not working. In Firefox, the page just remains blank on submitting & no changes are saved.
This started several weeks ago & I even posted a request for help but got no response (as yet).

Although updating to 5.2 solved some problems like making the apparently vanished image gallery (mysite.com/image - listing albums) reappear & solved some other problem or 2 [no new submitted recipes where appearing on the page for that purpose], it did not solve this.

I have no idea what caused the above problems to begin - I just noted one time when I needed those functions that they wwere not working..

Does anyone know a solution to this? I need to make some key changes to the layout + some functions.

Thanks in advance

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cog.rusty commented

In Firefox, the page just remains blank on submitting & no changes are saved.

Check about the "white screen of death". The most common cause is that php memory is insufficient and needs to be increased, and because of that some operations don't finish.

http://drupal.org/node/158043

I should also mention that blocks are "per theme", and when you set up bocks in the /admin/build/block page you should first select your current theme's name at the top of the page.

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lionheart8 commented

Hi

Thanks for responding.

I implemented all your suggestions, by cross-checking the last one, of selecting the current theme. I tried to change the theme as well, but ...

I then checked out the memory issue. A couple of weeks ago, due to some major updates to the free server hosting my site, there're a lot of memory related issues, at one time the whole site not appearing at all. It was otherwise showing errors pointing to increasing memory for over 2 weeks.

I also used the suggestions here, regarding creating a php.ini file in the Drupal root, where I successively increased the memory then up to 32M ...
I also at the time increased it in the same way in the settings.php file to 50M (!), but they did not help until the host completed the updates & made some adjustments to the configuration, like I suppose it was before, as the problem was originally not there.

After the problem was solved I had not changed those files again & so they still have the above values, which I suppose are not small. Should I increase them further, without any unpleasant effects that may be noticed by the host?

I also went to the .htaccess file & added the last line

# PHP 5, Apache 1 and 2.
<IfModule mod_php5.c>
  php_value magic_quotes_gpc                0
  php_value register_globals                0
  php_value session.auto_start              0
  php_value mbstring.http_input             pass
  php_value mbstring.http_output            pass
  php_value mbstring.encoding_translation   0
  php_value memory_limit 20M
</IfModule>

I had to gamble regarding where to place it, as in the posting ... it's just stated one adds that line to the .htaccess file - without saying exactly where.

I still have the blank pages when I try to save, say when I try to add a new block. I have quite a number.
I noted I can edit existing blocks though, but cannot add new ones.

I am yet talk to the host, and not sure how he'll react as I really pushed them during the update period. ;;)

So I wonder what else I could do ...

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cog.rusty commented

No other ideas about why your blocks can't be enabled/disabled or about the blank screen...

About php memory, use only one method. To check if it works, upload a phpinfo.php file containing the line <?php phpinfo(); and run it with your browser. That will show you how much php memory you have. How much you need depends on your installed modules -- 32M seems more than enough for most installations.