That's what I get when installing drupal on my local MAMP on mac. I fill everything as usual, and after setting up the database, white screen of death. Then if I go to the homepage it works, but my access is denied for every admin section (pretty much everything at this state).

I know it's still a beta.. but it looks fishy to me to have a beta2 that has that kind of bug.

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Anonymous’s picture

Check your php_error.log (/applications/MAMP/logs/php_error.log)
Probably an memory error, to little memory per php application.

itkovian’s picture

I ran into the same issue, immediately after setting things up to test drupal 6 beta 2. Simply adding the ini_set('memory_limit','20M') to sites/default/settings.php does the trick ;-)

There's also some other thread that deals with this, see http://drupal.org/node/158043 and http://drupal.org/node/31819.

sepeck’s picture

for the original poster.... These are both in the Troubleshooting FAQ in the handbooks.

There is also mention of memory requirements in the requirements page which is listed in the Before you start section of the handbooks.

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Josiah@missions.ritchietribe.net’s picture

Just FYI, This works, but you much manually go to localhost:8888/install.php to pick up the rest of the install.

a_amitarora’s picture

I am also facing same problem.

It works on some of my friends machine.

I have tried to increase the memory in .ini file, as mentioned in Troubleshooting FAQ.

Also i have tried running the Cron manually, nothing seems to work.

Anonymous’s picture

Changing the memory worked for me, but if not, try set the errors to display in php.ini (should be line 277 on MAMP) to at least know where the problem is coming from.

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