Blank page sometimes

Captain Joined: Sep 13, 2003 Posts: 313

My nuke site 7.2 patched and with Sentinel has been working very well for more than 3 years now.

One month ago I started to get sometimes a blank page, but when I reload the page it becomes normal. Normally when I get blank page it takes a bit longer for the page to load.

I guess this happens a couple of % of my page loads and it seems to happen everywhere -index.php, admin.php, forum posts. Also in phpMyAdmin I get sometimes blank page sometimes in the query window, where the database tables shall show up.

My database are pretty big - 178 MB. Grateful for input.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12389

Any error messages?
Maybe your database server cannot handle the load of your queries. Time to ask your host about it

Captain Joined: Sep 13, 2003 Posts: 313

Thanks for your reply. There are no error messages on the blank page, but in config.php of nuke 7.2 there are not possible to enable error messages, as in later versions.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12389

Put this into config.php

Code:

@ini_set('display_errors', 1);
error_reporting(E_ALL^E_NOTICE);

Captain Joined: Sep 13, 2003 Posts: 313

Thanks. I added it to config.php, but I seem not to get any error messages in the blank page or are the error messages in the apache logs? If it is in the apache logs I can't see them because I uses a web hotel with no log access.

Site Admin Joined: Aug 17, 2003 Posts: 12389

Not sure how else we can help. Without error messages, it is not easy to debug. Perhaps you can ask your host for them

Captain Joined: Sep 13, 2003 Posts: 313

The error has stopped since a couple a days ago. I have decreased the size of the database by deleting messages in the forum and it seems to have given result. Earlier the size of the database was 178 MB and now it is 171 MB. I had to decrease the database, because the backup with phpMyAdmin was limited by maximal execution time of 120 seconds, which diminshes the size than can be made by backup.

Captain Joined: Sep 13, 2003 Posts: 313

I have had this error later and intermittent blank page seems to be caused by overload of the MySQL-server of my webhost. This gives timed out and a blank page. I have a very cheap webhost, that seems to have too many customers on a server and thats make the problem.