How do I resolve this error/warning? page_parse_time.log failed to open stream

[kobra]

What ver of php is on your xampp install??
What version of ZenCart is producing a blank page?

[xcergy]

> As for your local environment. Well, you need pretty much all "old" software for it all to work as necessary.

I have that! I played w xampp way back when when i first discovered Zen

> The white screen with no logs, you need to enable a little more information to be displayed because it would seem that a problem is occurring before the ZC error logging has picked up. See:http://www.zen-cart.com/content.php?124-blank-page.

I have been all over that page, used the configure.php trick in a /includes/local/configure.php, tried the DeBug error log file ..... nothing has worked. I even switched back to the oem template with no luck or error files. I'm tempted next to replace files from the 1.3.8zip file set directory by directory to see if that solves the problem. At least the admin side still works so I can view products and attributes.

[xcergy]

What ver of php is on your xampp install??
What version of ZenCart is producing a blank page?

xampp 1.7.0 PHP 5.2.8 zen 1.3.8

admin pages work, the website page is blank.