When setting up a drupal site and you encounter the infamous blank page problem, i.e all you get is a blank page...

It is really helpful to find out what errors are being generated on your server.

On a OS X 10.4.8 Mac, I opened a terminal window and input the following, one command on each line.

cd /
cd var/log/httpd
tail error_log

In my case, I was getting a fatal php error due to coming up against a memory limit in php. If that happens to you, go to your settings.php file and add the following in the section with all the other php directives.

ini_set('memory_limit', '24M');


But check your error log to make sure you are fixing the correct problem!

After fighting with apache, php, drupal and phpadmin just to set up a drupal testbed on my G4 Mac running 10.4, I decided I needed a place to "log" all my fixes.

So a blog is born ... Welcome to Amber's Blog!