Drupal 6 on MAMP problems...

Posted by sethneal on October 10, 2007 at 6:13pm

So I thought I'd give Drupal 6 a spin on MAMP. I have Drupal 5, Wordpress, etc, etc all running but can't seem to get Drupal 6 up.

I use phpMyAdmin to make a database and user, then go to my directory and unpack drupal 6... it all shows up fine. But right after the page where I enter my database name, etc and hit continue I just get a blank screen. Just white. Nothing. I reload, etc but nothing.

I'm frustrated.

Does anyone have any suggestions? Is there something I need to do for mySQLi databases as opposed to mySQL databases?

You can see these two screen shots to see what I mean:
http://www.sethnjill.com/ss1.jpg
http://www.sethnjill.com/ss2.jpg

Thanks. Any help would be appreciated.

Seth.

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Posted by cog.rusty on October 10, 2007 at 8:09pm

The first thing to check is the php memory limit. Drupal 6 does take up more php memory.

http://drupal.org/node/76156

Try 24M. Otherwise check for more possible reasons here:

http://drupal.org/node/158043

Thanks.

Posted by sethneal on October 10, 2007 at 11:05pm

I changed it to 32 and it worked!

Thanks a ton.

Seth.

Same problem

Posted by GregCarter on October 18, 2008 at 6:17pm

Hello,

I seem to have the same problem, but don't seem to be able to fix it with the solutions listed above.

I've changed both php.ini in MAMP to 32MB, added "ini_set('memory_limit', '32M');" to sites/default/settings.php and "php_value memory_limit 32M" to the .htaccess, but the error is still there...

Any advice would be greatly appreciated!

Many thanks,

Greg

Same error? A completely

Posted by cog.rusty on October 18, 2008 at 6:35pm

Same error? A completely blank screen during the initial installation of Drupal 6?

Not the "white screen of

Posted by GregCarter on October 18, 2008 at 6:45pm

Not the "white screen of death", but the installation simply won't proceed forward when I input the correct database name/login details. The page just refreshed to this:

http://www.sethnjill.com/ss1.jpg

I presume the details are correct, because if I deliberately input incorrect details, I get an error message.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Try to enter the database

Posted by cog.rusty on October 18, 2008 at 7:28pm

Try to enter the database information manually in the settings.php file. That worked for some people who got stuck in that page.

In the 'sites/default' directory under drupal, make a copy of the 'default.settings.php' file, name it 'settings.php', and then edit it and enter your database information in the $db_url = line.

Then browse to http://www.example.com/install.php to start the installer.

By the way, it is better not to change memory limit and similar things in all possible places at once. In this particular case the ini_set() setting will have the final say, at least inside this Drupal installation, but later you may forget and make a change in php.ini and wonder why it doesn't work.

Hooray!

Posted by GregCarter on October 18, 2008 at 8:12pm

That worked!

Thank you so much,

Greg

I was able to fix this by

Posted by jjjames on December 13, 2008 at 8:30am

I was able to fix this by COPYING default.settings.php and naming the copy settings.php. I got the problem when I simply RENAMED default.settings.php to settings.php. So during installation, make sure you have both default.settings.php AND settings.php.