in reply to Re^2: White Screen of Death
in thread White Screen of Death

Sorry for not giving you much to go on. I was hoping someone out there had experienced this problem before. From my experience, a blank white screen is not very common. I've tried to debug, but the problem never occurs when I want it to. It seems to occur randomly. The last thing I expect is to have other's do the dirty work for me. I debug all the time. Before posting, I searched perlmonks as well as many other sites. I've checked the log files on the server. I've checked the mysql processes when the problem occured. I probably should have mentioned this, but like I previosly said... I was hoping someone out there had experienced the blank white page before and could give some tips.

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Re^4: White Screen of Death
by sasdrtx (Friar) on Sep 09, 2008 at 17:57 UTC
    A blank white page is far too generic a symptom to correlate to anything. It means only that you produced no visible content. Here's what I would do:
    • See if there's an error message (probably not, since no error was displayed).
    • Look at the page source. Did anything get produced? Does it give you a clue?
    • Add some traces (write html comments perhaps) to the output.

    sas