NYCPHP Meetup

[D C Krook]

Hello all,

I'm having some trouble debugging a client's phpBB system.

All the tables under a 'phpbb' database seem to be set up, and all the files 
for managing the forum are in place.  I have confirmed this by 
'mysqldump'ing his database and source'ing it into mine, and copying his 
files to my local machine; everything works for me locally.

The problem that he is seeing is that he gets a blank page on what should be 
the forum homepage.  Here are the steps I've taken to isolate the problem to 
no avail:

- set error_reporting(E_ALL);
- added the following to the .htaccess in the directory (httpd.conf is 
configured to allow me to do this) php_value error_reporting 7
- tailed the Apache error_log
- scanned httpd.conf for access restrictions.  I can echo text on this index 
page.
- separately tested for globals and noted that they were on, I was able to 
toggle this in .htaccess with the following flag: php_value register_globals 
1
- stripped the ampersand suppression of mysql errors in the database 
abstraction class.
- successfully used the stock phpMyAdmin from his host, under his webroot, 
to connect to this database.
- connected to MySQL via the command line client as root, the default site 
user, and the phpBB user.
- Googled for "blank page phpBB", which throws up a lot of false hits 
because phpBB is the default forum for many online PHP related discussions 
of blank pages.
- Perused the Knowledge Base at http://phpbb.com/kb/


I'm not quite sure what other tests I can carry out to isolate the problem.  
Is there anything obvious that I'm missing?

Thanks for any and all help in advance,
-Dan

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