Last modified: 2010-05-15 14:33:56 UTC
I am installed on WIMP (Win Server, IIS, MySQL, PHP) and am having trouble after I logout. At the moment, I am the only user on the wiki, but you can go there and try to log in, then log out and then load the main page. It's not loading after you logon then log off. It seems to be restricted to only the main page, if you check your history and go into a page you've already been, it works. Now if you were to, at this point, erase your temp internet files it suddenly works again.
HTTP result codes are not being sent properly; an HTTP/1.x 304 Not Modified response is being silently turned into an HTTP/1.x 200 OK, and since there's no content sent you see a blank page. 301 and 302 redirects seem to have the same problem. This appears to be some sort of interaction between IIS and PHP's CGI interface.
Also on WIMP, and reveive a blank page when clicking a link that should re-load the existing page. This initially only occured on Main_Page, and subsequently started occuring on other pages. Start on Main_Page. Click Main Page nav link. A blank page (just html, and body tags) is displayed. Doing a ctrl-shift reload correctly loads Main_Page. Caching is off. Tried various browsers (IE, Firefox, Opera), on various machines. http://www.solidgone.com/wiki/index.php?title=Main_Page
try setting $wgCachePages = false in LocalSettings.php if this works we might want to make the installer detect IIS and do this automatically (with a warning like: due to an issue with IIS and php client side cacheing is disabled, if your site is heavy load we stronly suggest switching to apache and enabling client side cacheing)
That line doesn't exist in my LocalSetting.php, so I tried to add it and get a parse error. Parse error: parse error in C:\Domains\idiotsite.com\wwwroot\wlwiki\LocalSettings.php on line 35
Whoops, forgot the semicolon after the line, duh. Thanks for the help, I'll see how it works from here.
I'm testing MediaWiki 1.4.0 on IIS 5.1, and haven't been able to reproduce this problem. The 304 response is correctly returned, and the page is displayed. It may be an IIS 6.0-specific problem, or something else may be causing it. Windows XP Professional, previously upgraded to service pack 2 IIS 5.1 freshly installed PHP 4.3.10 installed via the Win32 installer package; using cgi-fcgi server API MySQL 4.0.24-nt installed via the Win32 installer package
It seems that my problem is totally cleared up. The issue was the local caching. Thanks for the help.
If disabling client-side caching "fixed" it, then the root problem hasn't been fixed. Reopening; changed summary to describe problem. If you mean something else by "local caching" can you elaborate?
*** Bug 1872 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I've installed on (Win 2000 Pro, IIS 5.0, MySQL, PHP). Also have done SSL on IIS. When configuring on config/index.php, and clicking on install, sometimes the page would blank or message 'page cannot be displayed'. It ran fine once, and the localsettings.php file was generated. but when i go to http://localhost/wiki/index.php, I get these warnings: Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in C:\Wiki\mediawiki\includes\ObjectCache.php on line 369 Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in C:\Wiki\mediawiki\includes\ObjectCache.php on line 369 Notice: Only variable references should be returned by reference in C:\Wiki\mediawiki\includes\SkinTemplate.php on line 136 Thanks for your help.
(In reply to comment #10) > I've installed on (Win 2000 Pro, IIS 5.0, MySQL, PHP). Versions of the others, plus the version of MediaWiki being installed is going to be more useful.
Here are the version details - MySQL - 3.23.47-nt mediawiki- 1.4.5 PHP 5.1.1 I hope this helps.
I tried the same with a Windows 2000 Server, IIS 5.0, PHP 4.4.1, MySQL 3.23.47, and I still get the same error. I dont get this using WAMP.
Do you get this if you use a release version, such as 1.5.3?
It works with the later release. Thanks - Probably something got fixed in the later release.
Adding "testme", need someone to check this in HEAD on the offchance it *wasn't* fixed after all.
i can reproduce this effect with version 1.5.7 (clean install) on w2k3 - iis6 php 4.4.1 everytime when a page sould com from the cache it is blank. tried to disable any caching dosen't help.
I've seen it also - running IIS v6 on Win2000 MediaWiki: 1.5.6 PHP: 5.1.1 (cgi-fcgi) MySQL: 5.0.18 Sometimes entire pages are blank, sometimes the navigation bar won't render. Always works fine in Firefox.
I have blank page problem on IIS6 on Win2003. IIS6 log returns 200 not 304. MediaWiki 1.5.7 PHP 5.1.2 MySql 5.0.19 Installed this week. Pages seemed to work fine. The problem first started when editing articles. I could edit discussion fine. Then the problem grew. Discussion edits stopped. Started getting "CGI Error...page misbehaved error" Now, site displays nothing but blank pages, including Main page. Running php page info.php has no problem. This same configuration worked fine when I tested on Windows XP Workstation IIS5 before loading on W2K3 server. Local caching problem? Same response in Firefox and IE.
Just installed Version 1.6.2 (clean install, no upgrade). Same effect.
(In reply to comment #18) > I've seen it also - running IIS v6 on Win2000MediaWiki: 1.5.6PHP: 5.1.1 (cgi- fcgi)MySQL: 5.0.18Sometimes entire pages are blank, sometimes the navigation bar won't render. Always works fine in Firefox. Any luck in this, I have the same issue with me. Thanks for any help
I had a similar problem with IE getting a lot of blank pages. I used Ethereal to check for 304s. I was getting the 200s with correct page info. However, the trace also reveal an error message being returned that php_ldap.dll could not be loaded. I was not seeing this error message in IE or Firefox. Firefox must have silently dropped it but IE must have choked on it and generated a blank page. Fixing this PHP error made the IE blank pages go away. Get a packet trace to make sure you are having the 304/200 problem and not something else.
We had the exact problems decribed in this thread (blank pages in IE) when running on IIS6. It was easily replicated on 3 servers. The problem was fully resolved on all 3 boxes by installing the latest PHP5 build *AND* installing using the ISAPI method instead of the CGI/EXE method. I hope this helps.
I have the same problem under IIS 2000, PHP 5.1.2, MySQL 5.0.18. I cannot tell exactly under which circumstances the blank screen appears. It happens with IE6 and Firefox 1.5. Surprisingly, when I right-click the page and watch the source code, it appears to be truncated. What is going on???
MW 1.9.0 on PHP 5.2.0 as either ISAPI or CGI on IIS 6 under Win2k seems to be fine. (modulo the old bug 3000 or general PHP configuration problems). I'm going to mark this as WORKSFORME; if problems *with cached page views* continue with 1.9.0/1.9.1 please add more detail.
I had the same problem, except one of my servers worked fine, and one did not. The server that did not work was giving me blank pages or sometimes partial pages. Both are Win XP, IIS, PHP, and MySQL. The only difference was one of the servers had newer versions of both PHP and MySQL. I set PHP to log events to the system log. After doing so, I discovered that PHP was trying to write session data to c:\php\sessiondata. This folder did not exist because my PHP install was located in the program files directory. To resolve, I simply created a PHP folder on the C: drive and created a sessiondata folder within it. I gave IUser_xxxxx write permission and all is well
I create the folder c:\php\sessiondata and it worked Thanks Cameron!
