Forum page going blank

ftpit

We have just installed vanilla
the forum home page at http://forum.ftpit.com/ is working
but individual pages going blank http://forum.ftpit.com/discussion/2/forum-rules
Any help appreciated

peregrine

put this in your /conf/config.php

$Configuration['Debug'] = TRUE;

and display the error you get.

http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/troubleshooting/

ftpit

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_detect_encoding() in /home/forum/public_html/library/vendors/simplehtmldom/simple_html_dom.php on line 988

@peregrine said:
put this in your /conf/config.php

$Configuration['Debug'] = TRUE;

and display the error you get.

http://docs.vanillaforums.com/developers/troubleshooting/

Bleistivt

You need the mbstring PHP extension.

Search this forum for mbstring, there are multiple threads about it and I have posted a workaround.

Edit: http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/215999/#Comment_215999

only do this, if you can't recompile PHP on your host

peregrine

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/208595/#Comment_208595

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/214301/#Comment_214301

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/215999/#Comment_215999

probably the first thing to do - would have been to search for "blank page".

you would have had all your answers.

ftpit

compiling mbstring

ftpit

mbstring solved everything.Thanks guys
Anybody recommend me a caching solution please

Bleistivt

Vanilla supports memcached and you could always use varnish. Again, you will find a lot about that if you search this forum. Or open a new thread.

peregrine

yes, open a new thread - it helps others who later read the forum.

http://vanillaforums.org/discussion/comment/216096/#Comment_216096

persistent

For other server newbies: Recompile PHP with Easy Apache in cPanel WHM interface.

QUOTE
If you have cPanel hosting you can use EasyApache to do this through shell. These are the steps.

Type the Easy Apache PathType the path for Easy Apache
root@vps#### [~]# /scripts/easyapache
1.) Do not say yes to the "cPanel update available".
2.) Continue through the screens with defaults till you get to the "Exhaustive options list".
3.) Page down till you see the Mbstring extension listed and select it.
4.) Continue through the Steps and Save the Apache PHP build.
Apache and PHP will now rebuild to include the mbstring extension.
Wait for the process to finish ~10 to 30 minutes.
Once the process is finished you should see the Mbstring extension in the phpinfo now.

UNQUOTE - From:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/10278561/how-to-install-php-mbstring-on-centos-6-2