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kato_jenkina · Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Indianapolis

I configured and installed b2 and everything seems to work OK except when I try to access index.php all I get is a blank white screen. The source looks like this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"></HEAD>
<BODY></BODY></HTML>

Yet strangely, all the other .php files load and work correctly. I can log in, post stories, change my password, etc but index.php is always blank?

Does anyone know what causes this?

Thanks, Kato

(some variables from my config file:

$siteurl = 'http://nimbleswitch.com/b2/index.php';
$blogfilename = 'index.php';

and

$pathserver = 'http://nimbleswitch.com/b2';

I've never been sure if $pathserver and $siteurl are supposed to look like this.)

Tanner · Joined: 06 Jul 2002 Posts: 55 Location: Germany

macshack · Joined: 17 Jul 2002 Posts: 1204 Location: Phoenix, Az

Hi kato_jenkina,

kato_jenkina · Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Indianapolis

Thanks for everyone's suggestions. I'm realizing that this probably belongs in installation problems rather than bug reports so thanks for your patience everyone.

It's probably not a problem with index.php because it's stock. I haven't modified it at all.

I'm wondering if the problem might be the $b2inc variable. If it can't find the includes directory, that would explain why the problem occurs

$b2inc = './b2-include';

I tried
$b2inc = 'b2/b2-include';
$b2inc = './b2/b2-include';
and even
$b2inc = '/usr/www/htdocs/nimbleswitch/b2/b2-include';

and that didn't work either.

I may try search-and-replace on every $b2inc call and hardcode the path.

b2 just isn't made to go into a different directory that the root directory and that's too bad. I think a majority of users would rather have their blog as a section of their site rather than it be "the site itself."

I will post my findings if I can come up with a solution.

Thanks again all!

kato

mikelittle · Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 376 Location: UK

I have NO problem running my blog in a sub directory of my site.

See this topic for info http://tidakada.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=766&start=0&postdays=0&postorder=asc&highlight=

Mike
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kato_jenkina · Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Indianapolis

so mike, were you able to leave the b2inc variable as this?

$b2inc = './b2-include';

or did you change that value too?

thanks, Kato

mikelittle · Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 376 Location: UK

No, my b2inc is the same:

$siteurl = "http://zed1.com/b2";
$pathserver = "http://zed1.com/b2";
$b2inc = './b2-include';

Mike
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kato_jenkina · Joined: 19 Nov 2002 Posts: 4 Location: Indianapolis

thanks man, i'm gonna blow away my database and start from scratch following your instructions to the letter.

your detailed post on how to do it is much appreciated. thanks!

kato

mikelittle · Joined: 11 May 2002 Posts: 376 Location: UK

I hope you can get it working.

They weren't my instructions by the way, they were Nessahead's with other people contributing.

Mike
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Larsson · Joined: 17 Apr 2003 Posts: 5 Location: Nottingham, UK

I also get this problem, but only in IE funnily enough. If I check out the site in Mozilla it's fine!?!?

http://daddylonglegsattack.co.uk/_v2/glog.php

My friend who I did the site for, hasn't complained about this, but he also uses IE like I do!?!?