PHPBB forum not displaying

[Vranicoff]

Hello All,

I have created catagories and associated forums for a WebSite I am building for my wife at crystallizedconcepts.com. I have also enable the forums module to "public" in the administrative screen. Yet when I click the forum link on the home page from either a test user account or the admin account all I get is a blank empty page in the body of the site. Does anyone have any ideas how I might solve this problem?

Steve

[troy]

I didn't see a forum link
I was going to click the link and see what it did.

[Frusis]

Ditto Troy. Give us the link to the forum Vranicoff and then we might be able to help... I tried /forum, /forums and /phpbb... ****ed if I know where you've hidden it! :-p

Cheers,
Jamie

[Frusis]

I didn't think 'd-amn' was a naughty word... The profanity filter obviously disagrees with me though... lol

[1darkangel]

Well now you know, lol. I came up empty handed with the forum too. It is well hidden. ;)

*edit* which version of phpBB are you installing and did fantastico do it for you?

[graffixjones]

99 times out of 100, if you're only getting a blank page with any PHP script (such as phpBB), there's a problem with your php.ini file, or you're missing an included php script.

At least that's been my experience.

The easiest way to figure out what's going on is to go to your CPanel and view the error log... the main log should tell you where the error is occurring, and should give you some clues as to how to fix it.

[Vranicoff]

My bad guys, I stopped typing at the cover page url. The full link is http://crystallizedconcepts.com/nukedev. I've just followed it myself to make sure it works. Thanks for the quick responses, especially over the holiday and all.

graffixjones -- Thanks for the tip about the cpanel error log. I'm new to the BlueHost way of hosting (so far I like it better than trying to maintain my own server, I can actually focus on building a site rather than just keeping it running) and am still slowly figuring out where everything is. I've checked the log and there is only 3 errors refering to a library not being available for "editor.pl".

Can't locate /services/webpages/a/s/astrolab-parc-national-mont-megantic.org/_editor/library.txt at editor.pl line 34

[Vranicoff]

Hi 1darkangel I'm not sure what you mean by "editing" my version of phpBB. I did install it through Fantastico so I assumed (bad choice?) it would be a complete installation. I have refrained from taking on an update until I at least understand the controls for what is running now. (another bad choice?)

[graffixjones]

Well, I don't think that library.txt has anything to do with why phpBB isn't working, but it's something you should probably get fixed somehow.

I navigated to your page, and when I viewed the page source, there's no phpBB reference in there at all, so something is probably messed up with the Nuke front-end as far as configuring the forums.

What you might try, is connect to your server with an ftp client, or use the built-in file manager in CPanel, and navigate to the nuke module directory, and make sure that phpBB is installed in that directory.

Then go into the Nuke front-end and make sure that you've done all the configuration to enable the phpBB forum module.

If it still doesn't work, and it's a PHP error, you might have PHP error displaying turned off in your php.ini file which is preventing the errors from being shown in the browser... which should help immensely in tracking down the problem if it is indeed a PHP script problem.

If worse comes to worst, just download phpBB manually from the phpBB site, and drop it into the modules directory inside phpNuke (just follow the directions that come with phpBB) and hopefully a manual install will fix any bugs with the fantastico-installed phpBB.

Good luck.

(PS - Make sure to delete the old phpBB directory in the modules directory first before doing a manual install).

[1darkangel]

Hi 1darkangel I'm not sure what you mean by "editing" my version of phpBB. I did install it through Fantastico so I assumed (bad choice?) it would be a complete installation. I have refrained from taking on an update until I at least understand the controls for what is running now. (another bad choice?)

The *edit* was in there to let you know I edited my post. So I was just asking which version you are using. (Sorry about that) There are plenty of people trying to run the new phpBB beta live already when it is not ment to go live and are having some trouble, hence the reason I asked. However if fantasico installed then I know exactly what version you are running. ;)
I consider fanastico installs a bad choice only due to the high number of mess ups it has made in the past. It does not always install right. Therefore it is better to install manually when you can.
I do agree that if you can not get this going you may need to do a manual reinstall. Who knows maybe fantastico messed up on you too.

[Vranicoff]

Thanks for your help folks. I've looked and the Forums directory looks to be installed with all the necessary files. I've gone ahead and tried installing the pgpBB manually and haven't been able to get php-nuke to recognize it.

At this point I think it's more important to get the store front working and will come back to these ancillary functionality issues later. One very valuable piece of information here has been that it isn't unreasonable to be suspect of Fantastico installations. I'll have more confidence poking around to find the issue knowing others have similar issues.

Thanks --- Steve

[Brad N.]

Did you install PHPBB separate from your PHPNuke install? If so, it's likely that you overwrote the PHPBB SQL tables created by PHPNuke with newer versions that are no longer compatible with PHPNuke. I did this the first time I tried installing PHPNuke, not knowing that it did its own PHPBB install. To fix it, I deleted everything and reinstalled PHPNuke. :(