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Today, tried to access my Modules tab in the control panel and it was blank.  Yesterday it worked just fine when I accessed the FreeForm module.

I updated from 1.6.5 to 1.6.7 today, hoping that would solve my problem. 

Any ideas?

A blank page quite often indicates a supressed PHP error. Make sure to turn on error reporting in both PHP an EE.

If it worked fine yesterday, can you think of anything that might have changed, either in your EE install or perhaps on the server?

All turned on.  The Modules page still comes up blank.

While it was working, i made some changes to the FreeForm entry records, directly in the MySQL tables (not through the FreeForm UI).  Although that shouldn’t impact the entire Modules function…

In theory it shouldn’t. Do you have a backup of the freeform table before you made the changes?

I don’t have an exact backup of that table.  But I do have an older version.

I noticed the URL’s for other modules.  So figured out how to access the FreeForm menu directly:

http://www.mysite.com/system/index.php…..&C=modules&M=FreeForm

This works fine.  This would make me believe the problem is unrelated to the FreeForm entries table.

What other third party modules do you have installed? What about extensions?

No extensions installed.  As far as third party modules…

-eepoll
-freeform
-linktracker
-pollster

How much memory is allocated for PHP?

Sue,

50M allocated for PHP (local value).  90M master value

Do you have access to server error logs?  I would think that it is a php error, and server error logs would help us get to the bottom of it.

-greg

Just enabled error logging and got these three error w/in the first few minutes:
[Mon Mar 30 20:09:00 2009] [error] [client 129.219.205.53] File does not exist: /home/42156/domains/hortensemillergarden.org/html/favicon.ico
[Mon Mar 30 20:10:31 2009] [error] [client 75.36.201.52] File does not exist: /home/42156/domains/hortensemillergarden.org/html/favicon.ico
[Mon Mar 30 20:12:21 2009] [error] [client 72.30.81.158] File does not exist: /home/42156/domains/hortensemillergarden.org/html/robots.txt

Rick, those three errors come when you use Firefox to view a site and you don’t have a favicon.ico file and a robots.txt file. They are nothing to do with EE.

The fix for this is to upload a favicon.ico file and a robots.txt file.

You can query in Google to find out what to put in the robots.txt file.

This will happen if you have a module folder that does not have a corresponding language file also put in the language directory.

even if you rename the directory, or whatever, ALL module folders will be parsed, so if you’ve just uploaded a new module, move it out of the module directory and see if that resolves the problem.

Now, that SHOULD produce an error like this:

Error

Unable to load the following language file:

/lang.xxxx

but i have seen it create blank pages when folders in that directory aren’t all ‘there’ or aren’t actually modules.

probably not your issue but it’s something to check. I’d remove any folders that were recently uploaded just to test.

Rick, might this be the case?

Thanks for all the input.  But the modules page still does not show. 

Sue - thanks for the heads up on the favicon and robots.txt.  I added icons and a robots.txt file to each site. 

JT - thanks for the tip on the language file.  I can generate an error message by removing the language file for one of the modules.  When i remove the lang.modules.php file I actually get an error message when selecting the modules page.  However, i put the lang.modules.php file back and the modules page is blank.