By westsyde on

I have installed 4.7.0 b4 which works fine, however i want to use 4.6.5 for now because there are more modules.

Every time I view a site install of 4.6.5 via http://localhost the page displays as a white page only, with some text.

It appears to be in one frame and there are obvious header errors as i can see header code on the generated page.

Any ideas what is going on here. I am fairly certain i have done everything as I should.

Is there something i need to do that differs from an install of 4.7.0 b4?

I am using MYSQL 5.0 with phpMyAdmin 2.7.0 - pl2 with PHP5 on Abyss Web Server running the XP Pro Platform and;

I also have MYSQL 5.0 with phpMyAdmin 2.8.0 B1 with PHP5 on Abyss Web Server running on a Windows 2000 platform.

Both work fine with 4.7.0 b4 and wont work with 4.6.5. I just don't understand why, however i would like to find out :-)

Any help with this is much appreciated. Thanks.

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jfaberna commented

The quickest fix is to go back to PHP4. Then once you are running okay pick a theme that's based on PHPtemplete and not the default Blue Marine. You can then go back to PHP5 if you want. Worked for me.

Jim Abernathy

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styro commented

The Xtemplate engine is the default theme engine on Drupal 4.6, while PHPTemplate is now the default engine on 4.7.

The XTemplate theme engine currently doesn't seem to work with PHP 5.x. Last time I heard there wasn't much interest in fixing that - but things might have changed since.

PHPTemplate themes on 4.6 aren't affected, but Drupal 4.6 doesn't come with PHPTemplate out of the box. You'll have to install both the engine itself and one or more PHPTemplate themes. Or alternatively just stick with PHP 4.

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heine commented

It's in the Troubleshooting FAQ as Junk {head} {styles} codes as output.

The quickest solution is to set the current theme to chameleon or marvin. They're included in the 4.6.5 install.

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westsyde commented

The troubleshooting FAQ above works and saves you from having to go from PHP5 to PHP4 and back again as suggested in the first post in reply, nor do you have to exchange the template engine as suggested in the reply that follows that.

However, if you do still want to use the bluemarine template, as i do, you will need to do some more research. I am going to pursue this problem further and see what else eventuates.

Thanks Heine and everyone else who posted in reply :-)

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heine commented

A PHPTemplate version of Bluemarine is available on the download pages.

I've added this info to the Troubleshooting FAQ as well.

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westsyde commented

Thanks again Heine

You are the best :-)

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heine commented

You're welcome!

After some digging I also found a phptemplate pushbutton theme for 4.5 that can be used on 4.6 with some modification:

http://drupal.org/node/15059
http://drupal.org/node/22058
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westsyde commented

I woke this morning to yet more suprises :-)

Thanks again Heine.

All your suggestion worked easily and without a hitch the first time.

All anyone needs to remember is that xtempates and phptemplates use a differant engine,
so you must download it if you do change from one type to the other and/or run both.

I recommend these suggestion to anyone whatsoever no matter what your skill level is.

Next subject to remedy for myself is getting gmail to work for SMTP/sendmail.

I hope i can find such great assistance again.

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TurboChef commented

I saw the same thing... I didn't know quite what to search for in the forums to figure it out... then I was playing around...

You set up a custom user for the drupal table, right? I did that - then I set that user's privs to be from ANY URL in phpMyAdmin, reloaded, and boom - the theme and CSS just appeared.

Try it.

JP