new install - blank screen - SOLVED

darkpaw · Post by **darkpaw** » Fri Mar 11, 2011 11:32 pm

So I'm doing a new server install and am hoping to migrate the current setup onto it. Big problem. After installing zoneminder and mysql, there are no errors and ZM is running, but when I browse to http://<ip>/zm I get a blank screen....nothing. If I go to the web server without the ZM page, Apache is running fine and displays. But with ZM, I get nothing. What am I missing?

Install is on Fedora Core 14. I've run the zm_create and removed the deny line from httpd.conf. selinux is disabled. No errors in the message log:

Mar 11 23:25:52 zm zmpkg[1239]: INF [Command: start]
Mar 11 23:25:53 zm zmdc[1258]: INF [Server starting at 11/03/11 23:25:53]
Mar 11 23:25:56 zm zmdc[1258]: INF ['zmfilter.pl' starting at 11/03/11 23:25:56, pid = 1282]
Mar 11 23:25:56 zm zmdc[1282]: INF ['zmfilter.pl' started at 11/03/11 23:25:56]
Mar 11 23:25:56 zm zmdc[1258]: INF ['zmaudit.pl -c' starting at 11/03/11 23:25:56, pid = 1287]
Mar 11 23:25:56 zm zmdc[1287]: INF ['zmaudit.pl -c' started at 11/03/11 23:25:56]
Mar 11 23:25:57 zm zmdc[1258]: INF ['zmwatch.pl' starting at 11/03/11 23:25:57, pid = 1292]
Mar 11 23:25:57 zm zmdc[1292]: INF ['zmwatch.pl' started at 11/03/11 23:25:57]
Mar 11 23:25:57 zm zmfilter[1282]: INF [Scanning for events]
Mar 11 23:25:57 zm zmwatch[1292]: INF [Watchdog starting]
Mar 11 23:25:57 zm zmwatch[1292]: INF [Watchdog pausing for 30 seconds]
Mar 11 23:25:57 zm zmdc[1258]: INF ['zmupdate.pl -c' starting at 11/03/11 23:25:57, pid = 1299]
Mar 11 23:25:57 zm zmdc[1299]: INF ['zmupdate.pl -c' started at 11/03/11 23:25:57]

bb99 · Post by **bb99** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 3:08 pm

Did you check the php.ini for the short tags setting?

edit the SECOND entry of short_open_tag down at line 229. Again as root (menu-Application::System Tools::Terminal), gedit /etc/php.ini

Change short_open_tag from 'off' to 'on'

darkpaw · Post by **darkpaw** » Sat Mar 12, 2011 9:07 pm

Looks like that fixed it.

When was that requirement introduced? I don't remember ever having to do that in the past. It's also not in the README.Fedora file.

bb99 · Post by **bb99** » Sun Mar 13, 2011 12:12 am

I posted in the wiki under Fedora how to. Based on Hiredguntech's how to. Puzzled many of us on many different distributions. Still presents it's ugly head occasionally. Seems to have become a problem with a PHP update in Nov., Dec. of 2009. Glad your fixed, please edit your title to "solved", makes searches so much easier, Thanks.