[support] white screen of death

[Eric Mckenna]

John Barreiros wrote:
> I've been building a site (ecommerce, simplenews, mailmime, and a 
> bunch of others) on our development server. I transfered it to the 
> live host today and imported the db. When I pulled up the site I get a 
> white screen.
>
> We've loaded up sites on this host before without a problem, so there 
> is some strange thing going on with this new site.
>
> I really don't want to rebuild the site from scratch on the host. 
> It'll take days.
>
> So, is there some way I can debug this? See exactly where it's 
> failing? The hosts errors logs show nothing. 
>
> I tried some insert "echo" commands here and there to do some 
> rudimentary tracing. It's failing when "print theme('page', $return);" 
> is called in index.php. I sprinkled some echos in phptemplate.engine 
> but I became overwhelmed because I don't know exactly how the 
> functions get called, in what order, etc.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
Check your webserver error log.