I recently used Drupal 6.2 for a project and to my surprise after I activated blog, tracker, statistics and other modules and changed to a contributed theme the /admin -administration page does not load. It does not give any error or time our but gives a blank page. Not only that nothing in /admin works like /admin/build/themes or any other URL. Other thinks work fine like adding nodes viewing them. So what may be the problem. Due to this I upgraded to 6.3 but the problem persists. My old sites in Drupal 5.x run fine with no problem. I'm using XAMPP 1.6.2 on windows Vista. What should I do?

Please help

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dropcube’s picture

dropcube commented
Priority: Critical » Normal
Status: Active » Fixed

after I activated blog, tracker, statistics and other modules and changed to a contributed theme the /admin -administration page does not load

If this happen after changing to a contrib theme, the issue is probably related with the theme. If the theme is hosted at Drupal.org, please report the bug in the theme issue queue.

geshan’s picture

geshan commented

I managed to change back to Garland but still the problem persists. Think there is some problem in system module may be.

vm’s picture

vm commented

blank pages are apache errors, check your apache/http error logs to see if an error is being thrown.

also try clearing your cache in administer -> performance

geshan’s picture

geshan commented

There are no errors, how am I supposed to go to performance when my /admin does not load, you may give the full URL to the performance but noting after /admin work.
HELP HELP

vm’s picture

vm commented

I can't reproduce the problem and without any apache error messages I don't know how to debug any further.

you can try clearing your cache tables manually in the DB using a tool like phpmyadmin

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Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.

japanitrat’s picture

japanitrat commented
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

argh, this is bad, having the same problem. I do not use clean-url's, have garland as administration-page, but it won't display any pages which start with "?q=admin". (afaik we don't have a top-level folder "admin" in the drupal-directory)

I've contacted the server admins, but they say there is nothing reasonable in the logs.

Since we ported the database from a dev-server, we will now try to make a fresh install on the new environment, maybe its something with the database.

damien tournoud’s picture

damien tournoud commented
Status: Active » Fixed

Try visiting ?q=admin/build/modules

japanitrat’s picture

japanitrat commented

as i said: Every page starting with ?q=admin didn't work which includes ?q=admin/build/modules (why is that fixed?)

anyway we found the solution now:

the update.module were blocked by the firewall (every admin page tries to repopulate the update-list), which caused the server to timeout with no errors in logfiles. we disabled it manually in the database in order to work on other things before getting a new firewall-rule applied.

further reading: http://www.tmsnetwork.org/blog/node/119

Anonymous’s picture

Anonymous (not verified) commented
Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for two weeks with no activity.