White Screen of Death - No errors on screen or in logs

PHP
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I’ve got a bit of a crisis going on. When i switched my machine on this morning, i get a white screen with no errors on screen or in the logs. I have added error reporting in my common.php file. If this was a fatal error i’d of thought it would show up.

I am working with GIT, and have rolled back 3 or 4 commits, but this does not seem to help.

I have been working on this project for 6 months, so i am actually pretty stumped as to why this has happened.

I am using AMPPS stack locally.

Anyone else had anything like this before?

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What happens when you run this script then?

http://localhost/test.php

test.php


<?php
 error_reporting(E_ALL);
 ini_set("display_errors", 1);

echo 'Hello ; // yes, this line has an error
?>
3

Thanks for your reply. I’ve already got E_ALL and display errors, but actually even echoing text isn’t working, but i’ve tried phpinfo(); in the root of the directory and that is fine. It says it should be displaying and logging errors.

4

How do you know the server is running then?

5

AMPPS says it is running, and i’ve used different virtual hosts today.

6

Sounds as if the server is running but PHP is not configured or there is a httpd directive out of kilter, or the host is not being found. These are the usual suspects anyway …

7

Thanks for your reply. I’ve been checking my Smarty template directories, permissions etc, and have made a new GIT branch. Still no further, still no errors.

8

Ok, finally got to the bottom of this. I was trying to connect to a remote mysql db, which had been deleted, but i didn’t have sufficient error handling on the query, so it just white screened. @Cups - Thanks for your help.

9

Thx for replying with the cause, I’m sorry but I don’t think I managed to suggest anything helpful, but heck, I shared your pain for a bit…