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blank page after installing 3.8.0 or 3.7.5

Author Message

Marko Faber

Monday 22 May 2006 3:25:34 pm

I tried several times to install ez_publish.

Everytime the installation works great and than, when i log in as admin or as user, i get a blank page.
in the error.log is written
[ Mai 23 2006 00:06:26 ] [xxx.xxx.xx.xx] eZMySQLDB:
Connection error: Couldn't connect to database. Please try again later or inform the system administrator.
Access denied for user 'root'@'localhost' (using password: NO)

I've no idea why, because in my settings/siteaccess/name_of_my_site/site.ini.append.php
i see the correct user and password and not "root".

in a old topic i read that there are some problems with php 4.4.2. so i installed php 4.4.1 but it doesn't help.

any idea?

Björn X

Monday 22 May 2006 8:06:08 pm

are there any database settings in setttings/override/site.ini.append.php?

if so, remove them.

Marko Faber

Tuesday 23 May 2006 5:07:12 am

No, there are no settings in that file.

I think it is a port/socket problem.
If i start

netstat -a

ther is no mysql service.
I run a vserver from 1&1 with plesk and if i look at the database-server info from plesk i see:

Host name or IP address *  	localhost
Port number 	(local connection)
Database server type 	MySQL
Use this server as default for MySQL 	Yes

so there is no port number.
As i know i can use for the MySQL server communication port 3306 or unix socket. I now tried to connect the mysql server via socket.
So i edit the site.ini.append.php.
it now looks like

[DatabaseSettings]
DatabaseImplementation=ezmysql
Server=localhost
User=*****
Password=*****
Database=ez_publish
Charset=
Socket=enabled
SQLOutput=enabled

Now i don't get that blank page, but a page with a error message:

Connection error: Couldn't connect to database. Please try again later or inform the system administrator.
Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket 'enabled' (2)

any idea?

luis muñoz

Wednesday 24 May 2006 5:16:00 am

Socket is the path to the socket, something like:

Socket=/tmp/mysql.sock

Marko Faber

Wednesday 24 May 2006 7:34:10 am

fixed it.

the problem was quite simple.
i have a vhost and the RewriteRule need a index.php in

../httpdocs/

and i had the ez_files in

../httpdocs/ez_publish-3.7.5/

!
thats all. no everything works fine.