https://www.machform.com/forums/ MachForm Community Forums Topic: Blank screen when running installer.php en Wed, 09 Sep 2026 07:09:21 +0000 https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/blank-screen-when-running-installerphp-1#post-8807 Tue, 02 Mar 2010 09:23:42 +0000 Saghalie 8807@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Did you use notepad that comes with windows? This can cause ^M characters to be inserted at the end of the line and you will get the same behaviour. A good editor to use would be Notepad++ or an PHP IDE like Netbeans.</p> <p>Regards,</p> <p>Saghalie<br /> <a href="http://www.kcmhosting.com" rel="nofollow">http://www.kcmhosting.com</a> </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/blank-screen-when-running-installerphp-1#post-8770 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 10:50:24 +0000 lindabryce 8770@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I think the problem was that I changed the config.php file beyond what the instructions suggested. I did this BEFORE uploading the program files to my server. I decided to upload a brand new fresh set of files with only the database and admin entries changed in the config file. This time the installer.php page came up fine and I was able to finish the install and then change the other config entries I wanted to change. Everything seems to be working fine now. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/blank-screen-when-running-installerphp-1#post-8768 Thu, 25 Feb 2010 08:37:58 +0000 lindabryce 8768@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I had MachForm running fine. Then I started getting email problems and also had some other issues that were not the fault of your program I decided to start over. I reinstalled MachForm (using a fresh download from your site)and went through the same config and FTP steps I did before. But this time when I entered the install.php url I simply got a blank screen and the word "Done" in the lower left corner. Assuming I did something wrong I wnet through the whole process again but got the same results. Please advise. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/blank-screen-when-running-installerphp-1#post-7501 Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:00:24 +0000 yuniar 7501@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Make sure to set your "machform" folder permission to 755 (CHMOD 755).<br /> All other files and folder should have this permission as well.</p> <p>The only exception is "machform/data" folder. This one needs 777 permission. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/blank-screen-when-running-installerphp-1#post-7493 Tue, 29 Sep 2009 23:59:15 +0000 checkyourfly 7493@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>What was the php dependency problem you found. I am seeing the same blank page.</p> <p>Error log:<br /> [Tue Sep 29 12:28:25 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.133] PHP Warning: Unknown: failed to open stream: Permission denied in Unknown on line 0<br /> [Tue Sep 29 12:28:25 2009] [error] [client 192.168.2.133] PHP Fatal error: Unknown: Failed opening required '/var/www/html/machform/installer.php' (include_path='.:/usr/share/pear:/usr/share/php') in Unknown on line 0</p> <p>Access log:<br /> 192.168.2.133 - - [29/Sep/2009:12:28:25 -0400] "GET /machform/installer.php HTTP/1.1" 500 - "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; en-US; rv:1.9.1.3) Gecko/20090824 Firefox/3.5.3</p> <p>I am running PHP version 5.2.9 on Linux and MySQL 5.1.37</p> <p>I have confirmed the file permission, but still get a blank page. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/blank-screen-when-running-installerphp-1#post-5662 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 15:35:20 +0000 yuniar 5662@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>Hello ron,</p> <p>Thank you for the feedback and sorry for the trouble.</p> <p>Actually, we have put MachForm requirements here:<br /> <a href="http://www.appnitro.com/machform/requirements" rel="nofollow">http://www.appnitro.com/machform/requirements</a></p> <p>Most hosting company already has PHP installed, that's why we don't provide any instruction to install PHP, instead we're putting it into our requirements list. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/blank-screen-when-running-installerphp-1#post-5658 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 07:45:26 +0000 ron 5658@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>It was a PHP dependency problem. Anyway it could be made to fail more gracefully?</p> <p>This is the first component of our website that uses PHP. It was chosen because it is, by far, the best option we could find.</p> <p>While your product, it self, is easy to install, your instructions assume too much prior knowledge of installing and configuring PHP.</p> <p>The instructions page should have at least mentioned the needed modules as well as, at least, links to information about installing PHP. </p> https://www.machform.com/forums/topic/blank-screen-when-running-installerphp-1#post-5654 Wed, 29 Apr 2009 05:19:36 +0000 ron 5654@https://www.machform.com/forums/ <p>I setup a database in MYSQL, installed PHP, then uploaded the files to the target folder on my web server. Then I navigated to <a href="http://dev.local/forms/installer.php" rel="nofollow">http://dev.local/forms/installer.php</a> and got a blank page. In fact, the response was totally empty.</p> <p>In the Apache log was:<br /> 192.168.1.101 - - [28/Apr/2009:21:39:39 +0000] "GET /forms/installer.php HTTP/1.1" 500 - "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.2)"</p> <p>I then tested my Apache2 configuration by creating a hello.php and putting it in the same directory as installer.php. When I navigated to it, I saw the expected page.</p> <p>I an running Ubuntu 8.04 with Apache 2.2.8-1ubuntu0.5 and PHP 5.2.4-2ubintu5.6</p> <p>FYI, I am a contractor for TeachersWithoutBorders.org, who is the purchaser of MachForm </p>