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[SOLVED] Blank screen and endlessly loading after installation

topastopas New
edited May 2015 in Vanilla 2.0 - 2.8

Hello everyone,

This is my very first forum entry ever. Found everything on google in the past 15 years but now I got stuck.
I am experienced with vanilla on XAMPP on windows.
Now I am using lighttpd on my phone to host small sites for presenting or testing. I have an app called Palapa web server running on android. (I think all this is not a problem here, although it sounds exotic)

After unpacking vanilla 2.1.10 and directing my browser towards the vanilla path (127.0.0.1/vanilla) the browser loads endlessly without showing anything.

To verify the web host setup I made a test installation of WordPress. This thing loads perfect and wants to be installed.

I don't know how to start working with this issue.
I tried to enable the debugging inside the conf.php - without gathering new information.
When I switch the forum path and the cache becomes inconsistent I get "Gdn class not found error". That made me happy tonight until I found out it it caused by an inconsistent cache - but shows a little intelligence out there. ;-)

vanilla-core-2-1-10

Can someone help me get on moving? Appreciating any help. Thanks.

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  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    Sounds like a corrupted transfer. Try re-extracting the zip file and re-copying to your serving directory.

  • topastopas New
    edited May 2015

    Thanks for your quick reply. I already did this. I also tried diefferent folders for "a new extracted ZIP/folder".
    Is there something else that you suggest or just a fresh download and extract? I mean it runs on every xampp I guess which means it works in general and WordPress works on the server lighttpd means the server seems to be okay.

    Do I need to set up specific directories for some transfers?

    What kind of transfer could this be? Can I somehow debug this?

  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    Do you get an error if you explicitly call index.php?

  • topastopas New
    edited May 2015

    Good point - and no I don't get an error! The same behavior as without the index.php.
    I called http://127.0.0.1:8080/vanilla/index.php

    This time I waited for about 5 Minutes after calling the URL above. Just loading no reaction.
    Is it most likely that the reason for this can be found in the index.php file?

  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    I believe this is an issue with your non-standard port. Can you try hosting it on 80 to make sure this is the cause?

  • topastopas New

    You were right. Changing the port to 80 solved the issue. Thanks for your help.
    This means I have to do a redirect or something, because I don't want to use root privileges on my phone too much.
    I think this is a defferent topic then.

  • hgtonighthgtonight MVP

    @topas said:
    You were right. Changing the port to 80 solved the issue. Thanks for your help.
    This means I have to do a redirect or something, because I don't want to use root privileges on my phone too much.
    I think this is a defferent topic then.

    This has been discussed and even fixed over on GitHub: https://github.com/vanilla/vanilla/pull/2170

    You could patch this manually until 2.2 gets released.

  • topastopas New

    Found it. I'll test it and give feedback here.

  • topastopas New

    Nice work.
    I patched the request.php with all 3 changes and that fixes the issue and makes vanilla works out of the box on port 8080.

    Thanks a lot. Do we need to close this or mark it solved?

    Best wishes.

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