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I am in the process of transferring a site to a new server and am having trouble seeing the site in the test view. I put a standard html page in and it displays properly so there must be something wrong with the index.php, path.php or config.php but I am not sure which.

Here is the current url: http://nu-living.com.s103645.gridserver.com/

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks.

I had exactly the same problem. See: http://ellislab.com/forums/viewthread/164538/
maybe this will help.

Hi Webalite, thanks for passing this along. I took a look, but unfortunately it does not help.

How about if you create a brand new template with just some minimal EE code in it. Does it work then?

Hi Sue. I was hoping you would be able to help out here. Currently I am just getting a blank screen, including the control panel. I know that something is working though because the database errors are gone.

Have you seen:

http://expressionengine.com/wiki/HowTo_Turn_on_Error_Reporting/

Let’s have you do that and see if any errors show up.

Alas, I am not even able to get into the control panel. I am going to do a fresh install and then see if I can rework it from there. I will be back after I try that. Thanks.

Sounds good to me. Let us know what happens, we’ll be here.

Hi Sue, I did a fresh EE install and everything works fine, so I am more convinced than ever that something is missing with in a few documents in my attempts to breathe life into this site.

Allow me to do a recap and then hopefully we can pinpoint where the problem is and then find a solution.

I am moving a live EE 1.6.9 site from one host to a new host on Media Temple.

I copied the database and imported it successfully. I downloaded all the files and uploaded them to the server. I then updated the config.php file to reflect the new database server, username and password. I know there was a connection here because I got an initial mysql error that I was able to correct.

However, with all the correct information in place, going to the testing url, the home page and the control panel come up blank. To make sure that I had an active link I posted a generic index.html page there and it showed up fine, so I know the URL is valid.

The site configuration leverages some unique information in the path.php file and also includes a login.php file so I am thinking that perhaps some of the customization in here may be the cause of the blank screens.

I am unable to implement your earlier recommendation that I turn on error reporting because the control panel page does not load either.

Are there any other steps I can take to troubleshoot this situation? I would really appreciate some guidance on this.

Thank you,

Forrest

Forrest,

I am unable to implement your earlier recommendation that I turn on error reporting because the control panel page does not load either.

You don’t need to get to the control panel. That is usually turned on by default. Just do the following and try and visit your cp.

Next, edit the /system/index.php file, and change the value of
“error_reporting(0);”

to
“error_reporting(E_ALL);”

The site configuration leverages some unique information in the path.php file and also includes a login.php file so I am thinking that perhaps some of the customization in here may be the cause of the blank screens.

Can you share what’s in your path.php?

Can you also run the Server Wizard on your new server please

Hi John, nice to see a smiling face this morning and thanks for looking into this.

I added the error reporting and got the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /nfs/c07/h03/mnt/103645/domains/nu-living.com/html/EjkbfeIt/extensions/ext.fieldframe.php on line 302

I also ran the server wizard and everything check positive, so that is good.

Here is what is in the path.php file:

<?php

// ------------------------------------------------------
// DO NOT ALTER THIS FILE UNLESS YOU HAVE A REASON TO

// ------------------------------------------------------
// Path to the directory containing your backend files

$system_path = "./EjkbfeIt/";

// ------------------------------------------------------
// MANUALLY CONFIGURABLE VARIABLES
// See user guide for more information
// ------------------------------------------------------

$template_group = "";
$template = "";
$site_url = "";
$cp_url = "";
$site_index = "";
$site_404 = "";
$global_vars =
array(
$_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT'] = '/home/103645/domains/nu-living.com/html'
); // This array must be associative

?>

Please let me know if there is anything else I can provide. Again, I really appreciate the help.

I added the error reporting and got the following error:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘&’, expecting T_VARIABLE or ‘$’ in /nfs/c07/h03/mnt/103645/domains/nu-living.com/html/EjkbfeIt/extensions/ext.fieldframe.php on line 302

That points to FieldFrame, a 3rd-party extension. Try disabling extensions via config.php and see if that lets you in.

Brilliant! Thank you. Now I can take it from here.

Keep us in the loop, We’ll be here.