By dar2117 on

My Drupal website has disappeared. I cannot access any of it; not my home page, admin pages, forums, ANYTHING. I just get a blank white screen. I have GoDaddy hosting; they confirmed the server was not the problem by loading an image in the browser using its path on the server. Their prognosis: Scripting error. What kind of scripting error would cause Drupal to disappear like that? It doesn't load the style sheet, menu or anything. Just a blank white screen.

Everything was running fine for months, until last night when it all of a sudden disappeared. HELP! You can see the carnage for yourself at www.washingtonscorecard.com

⋅ Categories: Drupal 6.x

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dddave’s picture

dddave commented

Check: http://drupal.org/node/158043

dddave’s picture

dddave commented

Did you change anything? Especially did you install and/or enabled any new modules?

bwv’s picture

bwv commented

Try going into your database and manually disabling (change status from 1 to 0) a few of the non-core modules. That should bring your site back up. You will need to look in the system and/or variable tables.

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sunfish62’s picture

sunfish62 commented

I don't use GoDaddy, but they should give you some sort of access to the PHP error logs. That will often help track down what suddenly stopped working. This, combined with the other poster's suggestion regarding recent changes, may get you back up and running.

I always have some sort of other basic HTML file on my host that is outside the Drupal realm so that I can troubleshoot this sort of thing. A simple phptest.html page with:

<html>
<head>
<title>PHP Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php phpinfo(); ?>
</body>
</html>

can be called by typing the URL in, and you will get some information about server functionality. Even more basic is to have a helloworld.html file available, just to check that your host is working okay. That would be as simple as:

<html>
<head>
<title>Hello World</title>
</head>
<body><p>Hello, world.</p>
</body>
</html>

HTH,
David

dar2117’s picture

dar2117 commented

It was indeed a white screen of death.
I changed my php memory from 128M to 256M and it run smoothly. That's a lot of memory though... I think I need to install some query caching ability to keep my memory usage down.
Thanks again for your quick response! Go Drupal!