By yee.dor on

Hi All:

Rather an amateur question but I'm trying to make a private forum. I have read many articles on the different ways to approach this - I decided to go with Taxonomy Access Control. I'm following this step-by-step tutorial: Private Forums and Member-Only Sites

However, whenever I enable the TAC module, I get the white screen of death. It's quite frustrating and while it may be something rather small, I can't seem to figure it out. Can someone give me a direction to take?

Thanks.

//DY

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cog.rusty commented

Usually this happens when php runs out of memory. Try to increase it to 40M or so.

http://drupal.org/node/207036

Other causes of WSOD:

http://drupal.org/node/158043

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yee.dor commented

And if I still receive the white screen of white death? I increased the memory limit to 40M, restarted apache but nothing seems to be different. Any other suggestions?

//DY

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cog.rusty commented

Was your php memory limit really increased to 40M?
Did you check it with phpinfo()?

If it was increased to 40M and didn't work, try 64M.

Also, which version of taxonomy_access did you use?

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yee.dor commented

I have drupal 5.7 installed and I'm using TAC 5.x-1.1. It's the only one to download.

Odd, in phpinfo(), the memory_limit doesn't show but things like max_input_time and max_execution_time show up. I read somewhere else that this means there is no limit? But I still specified in my php.ini file to make it 40M (tried 64 but no).

Seems insane.

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cog.rusty commented

No memory_limit means that memory_limit gets the default value, which is (I think) 8M. So, probably your php.ini setting had no effect.

Was it a local php.ini or the main php.ini? If it was a local one, make sure that it is in Drupal's directory and that you also ran phpinfo() in Drupal's directory. Also try the other methods (in Drupal's .htaccess or in settings.php).

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yee.dor commented

taxonomy_access 5.x-2.x-dev was the solution.
thanks for the help. really, i appreciate it.

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thesis package >>> interactive urban technologies
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bwv commented

Sounds like you are low on php memory. There are ways to fix that; search this site, there are lots of posts about it (you essentially upload a php.ini file to your root directory with instruction to up the memory).

Meantime, you might want to try the forum access and acl modules -- they work well together.
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yee.dor commented

But enabling them also gives me a white screen of white death. I have been able to enable other modules like event and calendar afterwards. I took out TAC and put in ACL and forum access but still the same problem. Any other advice?

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thesis package >>> interactive urban technologies
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bwv commented

Have you tried the fix for low php memory?

http://drupal.org/node/29268

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