Hello,
The front end of my 1.6.8 site was working fine but we noticed a couple weeks ago that the admin backend gave us a white screen after we logged in at the admin login screen. We tried to enable error reporting the config file without luck.
Today I tried to upgrade to 1.7.3. The update wizard worked through all versions until going from 1.7.2 to 1.7.3, when this error happened:
Error: The following error was encountered
MySQL ERROR:
Error Number: 1054
Description: Unknown column 'ip_address' in 'exp_mailing_list'
Query: ALTER TABLE `exp_mailing_list` CHANGE `ip_address` `ip_address` VARCHAR(45) NOT NULL
What should we do to get this all fixed?
UPDATE: I ran this sql query and the update worked so we are on 1.7.3 now:
alter table exp_mailing_list add ip_address varchar(45) not null
That didn’t fix the white screen problem. It also introduced a second problem with my templates.
1. After logging in at the admin screen, the screen is blank and the url is something like:
my_url/system/index.php?S=dc6b8f263c6e5be705870cc793cdd80dfaca605f
2. My front end now says things like:
ERROR The following tag has a syntax error: {exp:user:edit}. Please correct the syntax in your template.