Suddenly Front end blank. Admin fine.

[RodG]

The 2 changes I made were after the website went down. PHP 5.3 cannot be downgraded to 5.2 at this point.

I am on Zen 1.5.1

So, it probably not PHP compatibility related...

• Zen Cart v1.5.1 is compatible with PHP 5.2.14 thru PHP 5.3.x.

*unless* perhaps the site has some old modules installed.

Please follow mc1-8s and lat9s suggestions. They may help providefurther clues.

One other suggestion. Im a little concerned about the lack of anything in the log folders, so, load the admin configure php file into a text editor (make a backup first) ... remove the semi colon from any one line in the file, resave it, then try to log into the admin. The site should crash. Now recheck the log files. If there is still nothing there check the folder permissions, etc, etc, to figure out why nothing is being logged. Once youve solved that mystery you will probably start seeing the logs from the store front errors. Sometimes the total absence of error logs is a clue in its own right.

Cheers
Rod

[Nepherael]

So, it probably not PHP compatibility related...

• Zen Cart v1.5.1 is compatible with PHP 5.2.14 thru PHP 5.3.x.

*unless* perhaps the site has some old modules installed.

Please follow mc1-8s and lat9s suggestions. They may help providefurther clues.

One other suggestion. Im a little concerned about the lack of anything in the log folders, so, load the admin configure php file into a text editor (make a backup first) ... remove the semi colon from any one line in the file, resave it, then try to log into the admin. The site should crash. Now recheck the log files. If there is still nothing there check the folder permissions, etc, etc, to figure out why nothing is being logged. Once youve solved that mystery you will probably start seeing the logs from the store front errors. Sometimes the total absence of error logs is a clue in its own right.

Cheers
Rod

It works if I do something like that. I changed the database password and generated an error log for that but that is the only log file that has generated since I started this venture. Server logs and Zen logs.

I will try the debugging code.

If it's possible to get a fresh install but keep all the original files to keep the layout and site information that would be preferable but that is something that would be quite involved because I didn't build it the first time around. I'm almost willing to pay someone to fix it at this point because this is such an obscure issue

Here is the closest issue I can find to mine (i.e. front end blank not admin blank). I cannot do her solution because I can't just rebuild the site and transfer database tables. The site I'm working on went blank without a php upgrade too so I didn't do the same thing that caused her error

https://www.zen-cart.com/showthread....ank-page/page4