Blank pages served

[RFH Reseller: Rappie]

Hi Guys,

A customer reported that some pages on his website won’t load properly. Instead of the actual page a blank page is being served. His website is PHP scripted and using ISAPI rewrite for URL’s. I am trying to investigate this further myself, but I am not really sure where to start. I’ve started to visit this website on regular basis hoping to encounter the problem myself.

Did any of you guys ever had blank pages being served? Or have any experience troubleshooting this sort of thing?

Is it likely to be a scripting thing or more server related?

TIA

[RFH Reseller: nick]

Usually a blank page resulting from a scripting error would mean you get it every time, rather than just once in a while. You want to find out all the commonality between each incident -- Web browser, specific url, that kind of thing.

I've had blank pages happen for so many reasons it seems pointless me trying to guess!

You also want to check the logs. Not sure if we can get at the default error logs unfortunately, so that may mean adding a few lines to the code to tell it where to start logging script errors to.

[RFH Reseller: Rappie]

Thnx Nick. I already was afraid that blank pages can happen for so many reasons. Thats why I am not sure where to start.

I started trying to colect all the possible commonalities today. Creating a error log for the website is a great idea. Will do that aswell.

Thnx again for the pointers.

[RFH Reseller: petemasson]

Most of my recent PHP blank pages have been caused by rogue coding - dropping a bracket, or a colon instead of a semi-colon etc.