Comments on: phpBB3 WSOD (White Screen of Death)

By: Andi

Andi — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 17:41:21 +0000

Hi Morgan.

Is it possible for You, to explain why the heck, I get that WSOD, during the INSTALL?

I can't even install the forum, it worked on another host, but they didn't support mails ><

Best Regards Mr. Hansen, Denmark.

By: admin

admin — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 20:22:57 +0000

Thanks for posting your solution. It seems like another fairly simple way to troubleshoot this issue is to simply clear the cache.

Also it looks like this problem is by no means solved, so this post may still be of use to a lot of people!

By: Eugene

Eugene — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:53:28 +0000

I just want to let you know that this may be the only solution page I found for the wsod problem, and since that is the case, I thought I might share my experience.

On one of the systems (the site above) that I admin for, the database is something that the web host maintains control of, so I couldn't try the second solution you suggested.

Since GZIP was disabled, and has since been re-enabled without problem, I decided to take a look through the cache. I turned up nothing, so deleted the whole thing.

The next time I loaded the forum, it worked.

By: Linda

Linda — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 05:12:11 +0000

Thank you, Carsten! I was about to reinstall my board for the 3rd time! Clearing the cache was the simple charm!

By: Carsten

Carsten — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 16:39:53 +0000

I had the problem too. When I manually empty the cache folder it worked again.

By: admin

admin — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 09:04:33 +0000

If the file has no execute permissions, then you can give it by running the command:

sudo chmod +x index.php

However, you should not actually need execute permissions on your PHP files, if my memory serves me correctly. Have you tried googling that particular error? It looks like a corrupt install to be honest, or something has changed your files, as the default phpBB install should most certainly "just work".

Good luck anyway, let me know how things go.

Rob

By: ankur

ankur — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 16:46:02 +0000

i am getting a blank white page when trying to open my site :

here is what i am getting from my error log [2008-10-06 08:11:19]: error: file has no execute permission: (/home/xxxxxx/public_html/forum/index.php)

just before the above error, the erroe log showed the following error: [Mon Oct 6 08:03:18 2008] [error] [client 59.184.6.226] Premature end of script headers: /home/xxxxxx/public_html/forum/index.php

please help me , i am blank at the moment

By: admin

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 13:21:53 +0000

Are you accessing the forum from behind a firewall/proxy? If so try disabling HTTP compression on that device. Otherwise it looks like webserver config or a bad download that's doing it. Also try enabling PHP error display in the php.ini file.

Rob

By: Sam

Sam — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 11:30:06 +0000

I went to go and do what you said, created the new database and directory..uploaded the same version of phpBB, go to install and get the white screen on the install option.

Now what do I do?

By: Lux

Lux — Mon, 12 May 2008 14:38:12 +0000

I've got a problem that seems similar but must have a different cause.

Using php BB3. I just finished installing the program, and the admin console seems to work fine, and the create new usernames/register function seems to be working fine, but when the menu tries to return to index.php for my forum, this blank white screen appears. I'm new to webdevelopment and don't know a ton about php, is it likely that I have the same problem? -Lux