Blank Pages after upgrade

[kayiwa]

I am having a problem post upgrade. Our installation works fine but none of the actual articles render. I've looked at what *I think* are the usual suspects. The files_dir is owned by the Web Server. For giggles I placed this directory on the publicly accessible webserver with no change.

The access.log file gives me 200 OK and the error log shows nothing. Is there any other place I should be looking to correct this?

I am running Debian (Squeeze) with all the packages from the Debian project.


Cheers,

[asmecher]

Hi kayiwa,

The best place to investigate is the lib/pkp/classes/file/FileManager.inc.php class -- particularly readFile function. It's responsible for reading and displaying a file's contents. Try adding a die(...) statement there to display the file path so you know exactly what it's trying to read.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[kayiwa]

Sorry for delayed response. This is what I did.

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        function &readFile($filePath, $output = false) {
                echo $filePath;
                if (is_readable($filePath)) {
                        echo 'Hi';
                        $f = fopen($filePath, 'rb');
                        $data = '';
                        while (!feof($f)) {
                                $data .= fread($f, 4096);
                                if ($output) {
                                        echo $data;
                                        $data = '';
                                }
                        }
                        fclose($f);

                        if ($output) {
                                $returner = true;
                                return $returner;
                        } else {
                                return $data;
                        }

                } else {
                        echo 'Error';
                        $returner = false;
                        return $returner;

It shows me the path to the file. The file itself is readable by the webserver. Just in case my eyes were deceiving me I made the world readable and still it will not render them. I now get

/path/to/file.htmlError

Thanks for any more pointers.

[asmecher]

Hi kayiwa,

There may still be a permissions problem with an upstream directory. Have you checked to see what the results of that is_readable call are, e.g. by adding an "else die('Permissions problem!');" statement?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[kayiwa]

I get the same error. It *sees* the file but will not render it. A curious thing happened and I pulled in someone more fluent in PHP than I am to look at...

The /path/to/file.html

differs from

/path/to/filetoopen.pdf

By that I mean from the actually server I am able to

/usr/local/bin/lynx /path/to/file.html and when I open that, it is looking for

/path/to/filetoopen.pdf

I feel like I have described the actual problem wrong given that.

[asmecher]

Hi kayiwa,

Sorry, just making sure I'm following -- in the above code sample you provided, were you seeing "Hi" or "Error"?

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team

[kayiwa]

My apologies. I restarted the upgrade process with a clean DB dump and clean ojs install files (instead of)

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php tools/upgrade.php patch


and was able to go to 2.4.0

Sorry for the noise.

[asmecher]

Hi kayiwa,

Glad to hear you got it going.

Regards,
Alec Smecher
Public Knowledge Project Team