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#1 2010-12-01 00:31:23
- konfusion
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After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
I go through the setup, my database is connected, and it shows me what I need to copy and paste and upload as config.php. I do that, press “I did it” then it takes me to a blank page, I press refresh and it takes me back to the beginning where I have to chose my language. I’ve tried several times to do this, making new databases, deleting and reinstalling textpattern in my FTP. I cannot figure out what I’m doing wrong. I used to have wordpress and never had a problem with mysql databases so I know there’s nothing wrong with that.
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
Where are you uploading the config.php file to? it should be sitting inside the /textpattern/ directory alongside a file called config-dist.php (which you can delete).
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#3 2010-12-01 01:17:43
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
I’m uploading it to my textpattern directory. Even after deleting config-dist.php it’s still a blank page.
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
Mmmm. It just sounds like Txp doesn’t see the config file so assumes it needs to run through setup which is why I asked. I’m assuming all the root directory files are there like index.php, .htaccess and css.php? If they are then this is beyond my knowledge. Either someone else needs to come up with ideas or maybe you should move this question to the Developer Support forum. It could be an .htaccess thing but I’m clutching here.
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#5 2010-12-01 20:00:45
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
I’ve seen that it sometimes causes problems if your config.php has blank lines or spaces before the actual content. You could check that.
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#6 2010-12-01 20:57:20
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
There’s no blank lines, I have all my files in my root directory (index.php, style.css .htaccess). I don’t know what else I can do.
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#7 2010-12-01 21:39:38
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
This error comes up :
Warning: Unexpected character in input: ‘\’ (ASCII=92) state=1 in /home/konfusio/public_html/textpattern/config.php on line 7
Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_VARIABLE in /home/konfusio/public_html/textpattern/config.php on line 8
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#8 2010-12-01 22:14:51
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
Finally figured it out. Instead of copy and pasting the code into text edit and saving as a rich text document then changing the filename in my FTP program, I edited the config-dist.php file and changed it to config.php. Worked like a charm.
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
Aha. Rich text not good. It adds characters. I don’t know what your computer is but on Windows use notepad or whatever simple text editor you have or a code editor if you have one..
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#10 2010-12-01 22:33:01
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
I use a Mac and Textedit is the equivalent to Notepad I suppose.
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
konfusion wrote:
I use a Mac and Textedit is the equivalent to Notepad I suppose.
TextEdit is word processor, equilavent more to the WordPad than Notepad (which is just plain text editor). I wouldn’t really recommend TextEdit for opening any type of file that contains source code (that has to be kept unaltered).
If you find yourself working with code, I would highly recommend installing the Xcode from your install disc or getting some other syntax editor, like for example Smultron (open-source) or Coda.
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#12 2010-12-01 23:20:44
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Re: After Uploading Config.php the page is blank
Oh, okay, thanks, I’ll try that :)
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