Admin Page will not load

[lemuria]

Update: we are able to load all of the other pages in the admin other than the index page. We're hosted on GoDaddy, and other posts talking about their MySQL issues make me think that this is the problem, but I'm not sure why this would only affect the index page in the admin, and no other areas of the admin or the site.

Does anyone know why this would happen only on that one page, or if something else is the problem?

[Chuckl]

I saw something similar a while back, which was the admin index page load was being blocked by the new ZC version check. Wildly improbable, but try editing /admin/includes/local/skip_version_check.php and setting version_check to 'off'.

[hfixhfix]

I experienced a similar problem, I received a blank page when trying to login to the admin. Setting version_check=off got me past the problem, but what are the implications of this, will I find myself backlevel in the future?

[Chuckl]

I wouldn't lose too much sleep over that, I always deactivate it. Since new versions come out at most 2-3 times a year, seems a bit of an overkill to check every time you go to your admin page.
Much easier to pop into the forum periodically, and more sociable.

[Ajeh]

Do periodically check it ... security issues are addressed in bugfixes as well as bugs of major significance ...

If you are not on the Announcements list then you have no way to know ...

You can also always check on the Tools ... Server Info ...

[econcepts]

Update: we are able to load all of the other pages in the admin other than the index page. We're hosted on GoDaddy, and other posts talking about their MySQL issues make me think that this is the problem, but I'm not sure why this would only affect the index page in the admin, and no other areas of the admin or the site.

Does anyone know why this would happen only on that one page, or if something else is the problem?

Have you tried re-uploading all the Admin files (specifically the index page)?

Sometimes corrupt files occur during ftp (and for other unknown reasons) and if you simply upload a "fresh version", it will get things moving again.

Just a thought, but I have seen it with "blank pages" before, and in every instance (so far) uploading new files (you do not need to install zen again as long as it was a good install the first time) has solved the issue.

[shawnz28]

I was suddenly getting the same thing... changing the version check to off fixed mine as well