WB 2.7 fresh install works, but no display of Preferences and Settings

[marccouture]

What do I need to check?  A blank page comes up when I click on both of these sections.  My host tells me they have not changed anything on the server, and I already have a few 2.7 sites that are up and working (installed when 2.7 final version became available).  Nothing comes up in the php error log...  I tried installing 2.6.7 (everything works) plus upgrading to 2.7 from 2.6.7 (same problem).  I'm at wit's end here.  Has a new build of 2.7 been introduced recently by any chance?

Thanks for your help!

[marsaisa]

Hey in here.

Well my friend this must be a bug in the latest release cause you, me and a few other folk are asking the same question and I have yet to come up with a solution. It works like a charm on my localhost installed server, but not on the live server where it sits....anynews?

Thanks
M. Byrd

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

due to the fact that WB 2.7 works on all your other servers and on your lokal machine, and due to the fact that the WB 2.7 package has not changed since releasing it must have to do with the server settings on the machines where it is not working. Maybe an older php version or a mysql in strict mode or what ever. As long as we have no informations we could not help you.

Matthias

[vender10@hotmail.com]

Hello, just started using Web Baker... Love IT. Okay I got the same problem works fine on local windows system but doesn't show preferences and or setting also shows no error in the error log I just get blank pages very strange. Did you ever figure this out??? If so could you please share your fix.. 

[ruebenwurzel]

Hello,

please search the forum for "blank page". I'm pretty shure you will get a lot of results. There are different possibilities why this occurs. Hope the solution for you you will find in this posts.

Matthias

[marccouture]

I finally got around to checking things out with another hoster, and the error messages that pops up in the log look like the following:

[19-Jun-2009 13:12:40] PHP Warning:  umask() has been disabled for security reasons in /www/shared/web4956/pagesweb/wb27/framework/functions.php on line 198
[19-Jun-2009 13:12:40] PHP Warning:  umask() has been disabled for security reasons in /www/shared/web4956/pagesweb/wb27/framework/functions.php on line 200
[19-Jun-2009 13:12:40] PHP Warning:  umask() has been disabled for security reasons in /www/shared/web4956/pagesweb/wb27/framework/functions.php on line 217
[19-Jun-2009 13:12:40] PHP Warning:  chmod() has been disabled for security reasons in /www/shared/web4956/pagesweb/wb27/framework/functions.php on line 218
[19-Jun-2009 13:12:40] PHP Warning:  umask() has been disabled for security reasons in /www/shared/web4956/pagesweb/wb27/framework/functions.php on line 219

So, it's permissions related.  The same will happen with functions under the /admin/admintools and admin/settings folders.  What are the recommended permissions for these files?  I cannot change permissions myself and have to ask my hoster to do it.

Thanks!

[marccouture]

BTW, this problem does NOT occur with RC2 of WB 2.7, but only with the final release.  Something changed between those two versions...

[marccouture]

Anyone?

In the meantime, if someone could kindly point me to a download link for WB 2.7 RC2, I would be very grateful!

[WebBird]

RC? Do you mean WB 2.8? 2.7 is "old".

[aldus]

Hm ... i don't think that a RC2 woild be a realy good idea, but if you want:
http://www.bwvb.de/wb/pages/startseite/download.php

Another idea is to place

Code:

<?php // ignore this line ...
    ini_set('display_errors', 1);
    error_reporting(E_ALL);
?>

inside the "index.php", but as far i can assumee it could be the phpVersion andOr the permissions (777 instead of 775 or less).
Why can't you set the permissions, e.g. via FTP (FileZilla, Fetch, NTSC Telnet, whatever)? Have you upload
the files via FTP and/or an WebInterface (WebFTP) ... the "umask"-warnings doesn't hurt the functionality of wb at all ...

Regards
Aldus

[marccouture]

I am using PHP version 4.3.9.  All my files are uploaded via FTPS, and are owned by the Apache user.  Permissions are the same as with WB version 2.6.7 (that version works fine on my host).  I just reinstalled 2.7 RC 2 and it works fine, apart from the default HTML editor that needs to be replaced so editing works (I actually prefer Xinha and replaced FCK with it and everything is hunky dory).  Version 2.7 final and version 2.8 RC show the same behaviour, e.g. no display of Settings or Admin Tools, the rest works fine.