Serious Zenner help needed: trying to move to new server

[Website Rob]

As to why the page is not displaying, I would tend to think it is a problem with code; either PHP syntax error or incorrect HTML.

You would need to check and/or re-upload this file:

includes/templates/YOUR_TEMPLATE/common/tpl_main_page.php

I've seen this before where a syntax error does not show an error, just doesn't show the rest of the page.


As to the HTML, this doesn't look right:

<td id="navColumnOne" class="columnLeft" style="width: 130px">
<div id="navColumnOneWrapper" style="width: 170px">

Having a TD 130px wide whilst trying to put inside that a DIV that is 170px wide, is asking for trouble.

[paulsschwarz]

Hi everyone, I just want to say thanks so much for rallying to my rescue! I knew I was in good hands when I saw everyone helping was totally zenned.

I just wanted to say that I have resolved the issue thanks to a team effort.

Solution:

Whilst we were discussing FTP problems (ASCII/binary) I checked back on the site and it wasn't garbled anymore, I have no idea how that happened? Maybe my host kicked the server or something. Anyway, that was half the problem solved. Then my next problem was that php was dying halfway through creating the front page. More precisely I was trying to build EZ Pages box and dying. I littered the code with php print statements which kept me having fun for 3 hours until I discovered https://www.zen-cart.com/tutorials/index.php?article=82 which told me to download the error logging module http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=860
(thanks DrByte)

Well, it told me that some requires() were failing, it turns out Filezilla conspired to not upload the template_default directory. I promise I don't recall any files in the failed queue.

Well uploading the missing files fixed everything and now I'm up on the new server (which means yay for SSL!)

I think the error logging util should be prescribed more often! (yes I know it should be turned off in production, but it's really handy for debug)

Thanks all!

[barco57]

Hmmmmmm.....I seem to recall pointing to that error logging module in post #4 of this thread.......

[paulsschwarz]

go get this download http://www.zen-cart.com/index.php?ma...roducts_id=860
stick it where it belongs according to the read me and when the cart generates php errors they will be logged and you will be able to pull those logs and see what the error is.

What can I say!