White screen on Admin & Site after quickstart - Sportster

followed the instructions for quick start - after install - all I get is blank white pages on admin and main url

fresh install Joomla 1.5.22 and downloaded Sportster yesterday (20th of Nov 2010)

PHP Version >= 4.3.10 Yes
- Zlib Compression Support Yes
- XML Support Yes
- MySQL Support Yes
MB Language is Default Yes
MB String Overload Off Yes
configuration.php Writable Yes

Directive Recommended Actual
Safe Mode: Off Off
Display Errors: Off Off
File Uploads: On On
Magic Quotes Runtime: Off Off
Register Globals: Off Off


after the installation I get - Congratulations! Joomla! is now installed.

but all pages are blank white
Output Buffering: Off Off
Session Auto Start: Off Off


Also, I did a manual install without using quick start files and everything works - however I am missing all of the Components - Modules - Plugins and related sample content

after some investigation... It appears to have to do with the DB

I switch the DB location in the config file in the manual install to the quickstart DB and everything is blank.

does the quick start version require a manual SQL dump?

Also, looking to attempt to manually install - the "mod_gk_register.zip" is missing from the "gk_sporter_rest_files_J!15" zip

hmmm the db shouldn't have any manual dump ... should work "out-of-the-box"

which version are you trying to install?

the version of sportster I am trying to install is what I downloaded - last night

the Joomla version is 1.5.22

I also just set the debug from 0 to 1 in the configuration file and still get blank white on main url and admin

hmmm i just installed the latest sporter without errors... please try reinstall it and make sure your host uses php 5.x and not 4.x...

I was afraid you were going to say that - I do use php4 Ill see if I can switch to 5 - and let you know - doing it now

OK I changed to php5 - the new version works - but it breaks the original install of joomla 1.0.15

OK I got it working - it was a php5 issue

Now I am faced with migrating content items - does sportster use the K2 or standard content

x126 wrote:

Now I am faced with migrating content items - does sportster use the K2 or standard content

It uses both.
K2 is an extension to joomla functionalities.

I have managed to migrate the content using mtwMigrastor - with the exception of a few issues its working pretty well.

ill sort through those...

Now I am confused as to the "latest Features" which uses Photoslide GK3

it appears that what appears under "latest features" has to be manually inserted - is that the case? (hope not)

love the look of "latest features" via: mod_gk_image_show but manually having to update the contests is not an option since we produce allot of articles per day

is there a way to have the "latest features" sow the most popular or recently added stories?

Hi

"Latest features" is a Photoslide? Right? Than You need to place the slides manualy. Sorry.

I was having an issue with a white screen on site side only - disabling 'mootools upgrade' plugin seems to have sorted it out...

Any idea why this would be?

Hi

Have You installed any extentions to the site ? Most probably there were some nasty javascript conflict. But from the other hand I've never seen javascript preventing site from loading ;/ but it's possible in theory.

I have added extensions. The thing is it seems to load sometimes and then other times I just get a white screen... surely if it was a conflict it would not load at all?

Hi

Yes You are right. Please in joomla panel global configuration for server change the error showing level to maximum. Maby if the error massage will display will tell us something.