Re: Mantis installation presents blank screen.

On Apr 15, 2009, at 1:56 PM, Hostetler, David B. (JSC-IT)[MEI  
TECHNOLOGIES INC] wrote:

>  Stepping through the installation steps as published in http://www.mantisbt.org/manual/manual.installation.php 
>  goes reasonably smoothly. I untarred the package, and performed a  
> chown -R user:user for the MantisDirectory for the user that runs  
> the app. (There is an existing instance in another directory alias,  
> long story.)
>
>  I get to the point where we are post database configuration. Since  
> there is another instance using the database name bugtracker, we  
> named this one BugSmasher. I click the link to log in and set up  
> accounts and projects which brings me to.
>  https://Servername/MantisDirectory/manage_proj_create_page.php
>
>  Which serves up a blank page.

A common cause of this is an error in one of your configuration files  
or whitespace beyond the final ?> in a php file.

Can you take a look at your apache error log (often /var/log/httpd/ 
error_log) to see if there are any descriptive error messages?

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