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Hello,

I was just in the middle of making some adjustments to our site’s path.php file, and now when I try to load the site (http://www.sitename.com/index.php), the page comes up blank.

I had copied the path.php file from the server locally, made some changes, and re-uploaded it when this happened. So I then removed my changes and re-uploaded what I thought was an original file, but it still comes up with a blank page.

Is there another file or process that writes to the path.php file?

I’m in a bind here; hope someone can walk me through some troubleshooting steps.

Thanks in advance,
Jenny

Another bit to add, which may help the troubleshooting:

Every time I try to overwrite the path.php file by FTPing (via Dreamweaver), it doesn’t seem to replace the file, i.e. when I view the path.php file on the server side, it always comes up as the original one.

I even tried deleting the path.php file, then re-uploading (then I have to reset the permissions to 755). But when I open the re-uploaded file on the server it still appears as the old file.

Note also, when I browse to http://www.sitename.com/index.php, I’m now getting the message:

“Site Error: Unable to Load Site Preferences; No Preferences Found”

Another thought: Is this somehow a caching issue??

More information ...

I’m running EE 1.6.9.

Here’s what I have in the path.php file (“mysitename” substituted for actual site name):

<?php

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

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

$system_path = “./system/”;
$site_name = ‘myshortsitename’;
$cp_url = ‘http://www.mysitename.com/admin.php’;

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

$template_group = “”;
$template = “”;
$site_url = “http://www.mysitename.com”;
$site_index = “index.php”;
$site_404 = “”;
$global_vars = array(); // This array must be associative

?>

The error message I was getting earlier is gone, but I’m still getting a blank page for the index.php file, as mentioned earlier.
I have a temporary “site under maintenance” index.html file that’s showing fine.

Thanks for any help on this,
Jenny

Ok, after several hours of pulling out my hair 😊 I finally figured out what I think was happening ... I think it was a Dreamweaver-based issue.

When I originally pulled the path.php off of the server to edit, it was an older version, which must have happened because I didn’t refresh the site through Dreamweaver first. So I was basically working from a non-working version to begin with, which I didn’t realize at the time.

Crisis averted!

Note to self: refresh Dreamweaver before pulling .php files off of them!

I’m so glad to hear you were able to figure out what was going on here, jtoast! Let me know when I can help again.