I have a working catalog with 1.3.9 on my website. I wanted to start a brand new catalog with 1.5.4 and installed it successfully with all the variables giving a green "go" after adjusting a few .htaccess things.

This is what my working existing catalog has:

Server OS: Linux 2.6.18-471.3.1.el5.lve0.8.72 Database: MySQL 5.1.69-log
Server Date: 01/21/2015 08:57:56 Database Date: 01/21/2015 08:57:56
Server Up Time: 08:57:56 up 73 days, 23:29, 1 user, load average: 2.58, 2.85, 2.84 HTTP Server: Apache
PHP Version: 5.2.17 (Zend: 2.2.0) PHP Memory Limit: 512M PHP Safe Mode: Off
PHP File Uploads: On Max Size: 250M POST Max Size: 250M
Database Data Size: 49,407 kB Database Index Size: 1,772 kB
I'm sure I have the exact same configuration on my new catalog, with a brand new MySQL database to go with it.

As mentioned, the install went fine. When I went into admin, I got the blank page. I adjusted line 118 of the T_STATIC to the "self" as suggested in another thread.

Now, when I go to my admin page, I get a partial page. I don't get anything showing in the error logs, and my server logs don't show anything. I have not contacted my host for his logs yet.

All that loads on the admin page is the following html:


HTML Code:
<!doctype html public "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html dir="ltr" lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Zen Cart!</title>
<meta name="robots" content="noindex, nofollow" />
<script language="JavaScript" src="includes/menu.js" type="text/JavaScript"></script>
<link href="includes/stylesheet.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="includes/cssjsmenuhover.css" media="all" id="hoverJS" />
<script type="text/javascript">
  <!--
  function init()
  {
    cssjsmenu('navbar');
    if (document.getElementById)
    {
      var kill = document.getElementById('hoverJS');
      kill.disabled = true;
    }
  }
  // -->
</script>
</head>
<body onLoad="init()">
<!-- header //-->
<!-- All HEADER_ definitions in the columns below are defined in includes/languages/english.php //-->
<table border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="header">
  <tr>
    <td align="left" valign="top" height="70px" width="200px"><a href="http://EDITED.com/catalog/EDITED/index.php"><img src="images/logo.gif" border="0" alt="Admin Powered by Zen Cart :: The Art of E-Commerce" title=" Admin Powered by Zen Cart :: The Art of E-Commerce "></a></td>
    <td colspan="2" align="left"><table width="100%"><tr>
    <td align="left" class="main" valign="top"></td>
    <td align="right" class="main" valign="top">Your version of Zen Cart&reg; appears to be current.<br />(You are presently using:  v1.5.4)</td>
    </tr></table></td>
  </tr>
</table>
<table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" width="100%">
  <tr class="headerBar">

    <td class="headerBarContent" align="left">
      &nbsp;    </td>
    <td class="headerBarContent" align="center">
Wednesday 21 Jan 2015 10:17:52 AM&nbsp;-0500 GMT&nbsp;[107.144.41.140]<br />
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