Truncating a table means removing all content of a table. It's not done in drupal but in mysql. It helps when drupal has issues (the blank page), and to make sure all cache and sessions tables are really empty. At the mysql prompt, type: truncate tablename; It is essentially the same as: delete from tablename; (see http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/truncate-table.html) Drush is an easier option, as you already have discovered. Glad you found your apache config error! Ursula On Sun, Feb 5, 2012 at 2:14 PM, Roger <arelem@bigpond.com> wrote:

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At least that's how it has worked for me previously. However with the sandpit Fedora 16 site, all I get is a blank browser, ?regardless of whether both or either drupals ?are set to maintenance mode or not.

Try truncating all of the cache tables and the session table. What is truncating the cache and session tables? I don't know about this! I ran <Clear Cache> a couple of times but find that it's not a good as Drush at clearing the Caches. I'll be happier when they get Drush working on Fedora 16.

Fixed the Blank Browser issue, I think it was a fault in httpd.conf in Fedora not recognising php.

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