My main page, and blog post pages are blank

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reza_rad
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My main page, and blog post pages are blank

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Hi I use Serendipity for some years, and today I've found that the website is blank when I browse it.
I event tried to browse blog posts but same. I can browse admin part of the website.
this is my website link:
http://www.rad.pasfu.com

I've contacted hosting provider and they said that they didn't changed anything on the server.
Could you please help to fix this issue?

Thanks in advance for all your help
Regards,
Reza
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Re: My main page, and blog post pages are blank

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Well yes this page is blank and died away, which tells us you will possibly find lots of error notes in your servers access.log and/or error.log. Please ask your ISP to send you a reasonable amount of log entries to study. In there you will for sure find the surface issue of dying away.

You are using Serendipity 1.4 on a PHP 5.3.26 system. The last is good, the first needs an upgrade to our 1.7.3 version. Doing this could also already help to vanish the frontend problem.
- First find out, if your database is already up to Version 5.x, not 4.x!
- Then check all permissions on files, read: http://www.s9y.org/11.html#A15 .

For the upgrade, you might want to use the easy autoupdate. Please read: http://board.s9y.org/viewtopic.php?f=6& ... #p10436179
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Ian

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Re: My main page, and blog post pages are blank

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Thanks for your response,
Hosting provider says that there is no log entries!

upgrading the version of Serendipity is something that I want to do. Is this process may break something?

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Re: My main page, and blog post pages are blank

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MySQL version is 5.x,
I did first three steps of the guideline here:
install the Spartacus event plugin, if not already have
install the Dashboard event plugin,
install the Serendipity Autoupdate event plugin,
update all plugins, if any, via plugin management upper (slight rose) button links,
and point yourself to the backends startpage to start the automatic upgrade.
let it run, after end, you will be redirected to the upgrader/installer page
at last, you will have to start the database updates or update functions via button (auto recommended) or just take the link to the blog
But I don't exactly get what you mean from step 4 onwards. could you please explain more? I cannot see update plugins option or something like that.

Thanks in advance,
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Re: My main page, and blog post pages are blank

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I managed to use autoupdate finally,
It worked very well, and updated to the latest version.
the blank page issue fixed as well. All good now.
Many Thanks for your help.
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Re: My main page, and blog post pages are blank

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What do you mean by "Is this process may break something? "?
It will update the core system and all core delivered files, This includes core delivered templates. If you use one of those, without using a renamed copy, and have modified it inside actual files, you will lose your changes.
Coming up from 1.4 sometimes may not upgrade all db updates and may lead to errors. I do
say: "may". But in all these cases we ever had here in the forum, this could be solved easily.
Ok - I quoted my answer I wrote some half an hour ago, while I see you already managed your questions.
Great that did work successful for you!
Regards,
Ian

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Re: My main page, and blog post pages are blank

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reza_rad wrote:But I don't exactly get what you mean from step 4 onwards. could you please explain more? I cannot see update plugins option or something like that.
Step 4 relies on Spartacus. This is a core plugin, which takes care over update repositories and your Plugin and Theme installations and is extremly recommended to use. For the additional plugins it will check every day, if there are any updates available. If using these mentioned event and plugin update buttons, on top of plugin management screen, it will show any available update to push automatically to your system on click.

Updating to the 1.7 Series brought the urgent need, to update all available plugins, while we changed to Smarty3 and did lot of fixes for upper PHP versions. To not get in conflicts after the core update, we recommend(ed) to update all plugins before.

Please also check, if you are running the latest version files of themes/andreas09.
http://spartacus.s9y.org/cvs/additional ... reas09.zip
Regards,
Ian

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Re: My main page, and blog post pages are blank

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Timbalu wrote:
What do you mean by "Is this process may break something? "?
It will update the core system and all core delivered files, This includes core delivered templates. I you use one of those, without using a renamed copy, and have modified it inside actual files, you will lose your changes.
Coming up from 1.4 sometimes may not upgrade all db updates and may lead to errors. I do
say: "may". But in all these cases we ever had here in the forum, this could be solved easily.
Ok - I quoted my answer I wrote some half an hour ago, while I see you already managed your questions.
Great that did work successful for you!
Thanks again for your wonderful help
Regards,
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