Dizkus

Good day all,

I am new to the world of PostNuke and would appreciate some help with the following.

I have downloaded a client?s site and database and need to get it running on my development server. The problem is that I only get a BLANK SCREEN when I try to open the site on my server. I have changed the config.php file to point to my development database. I have tried using the Swiss Army Knife utility to change the theme but that also returns a BLANK SCREEN.

I have loaded a new version of PostNuke on the server and that works perfectly.

The client site is in version 0.7.2.2 and I tried upgrading it to the newest version which generates a database connection error.

Any help would be appreciated as I still need to develop a custom Guestbook for this site before 14 March 2007.

Thanks in advance

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Steffen Voss

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I had the same problem recently.
The old version (.723) the site ran under would not work on my development box's newer PHP version.
In my case there were no errors in the PHP log, even after tweaking the logging settings to the max, just a BLANK SCREEN.

My solution was to upgrade PostNuke (to 0.764) as follows:

1) Follow the upgrade procedure on the live server (according to the doc found in the new version, follow this diligently or you will be sorry). Follow all the steps right up to the actual file copy, but not including that step!!!

Move everything (DB and files) over to the dev server.

Complete the upgrade procedure, according to the abovementioned docs, on the DEV server.

Re-activate any modules that come up needing upgrades or inactive.

Fix any broken modules that may need upgrading or even replacement!

Copy everything back to prod.

If this sounds like a lot of work, it is, but very much worth it.

Dennis

Thanks, that issue seems to be sorted.

I do have a new issue thoug, all my links are dead. All links to external sites work perfectly but none of the internal links work. I can not even log in to the admin section. All i get is my landing page no matter which link I click on.

If I change the link to point to the live site it works, but it is dead on the development site.

Any ideas on how to fix this?

Arie Odendaal

Perhaps your menu block is knackered?
It translates short-form URLs in the menu like {ADMIN} to long form URLS like admin.php?function=...

Dennis

I don't know, what I have discovered is that I only get this behaviour on the links to the ContentExpress module. All other modules give me a Session initialisation failed error.

This does not explain why I can't log in though.

Arie

I'd examine the lines that caused the error and comment them out... But that would be a very crude work around, if it worked.

Dennis