Kohana blank page, no errors

Question

So, I've got this working on windows, and now I'm trying to get it to work on ubuntu.

I have a Kohana 2.3 app I am developing, at localhost/myapp. When I navigate to that URL, I just get a blank screen. I can echo 'hello' in index.php and that works. The problem seems to be with Kohana::setup() in bootstrap.php - echoing a string before that line prints it out, after that line it does nothing.

The Kohana core directories are located in a different place to the app, at /opt/lampp/htdocs/kohana. In my index.php file:

$kohana_modules = '/opt/lampp/htdocs/kohana/modules';

$kohana_system = '/opt/lampp/htdocs/kohana/system';

This doesn't seem to be the problem, as if I change those values to something else I get a proper PHP error. Error reporting is definitely enabled.

Any clues how I can work out what is wrong? The same setup (as far as I can tell) is working properly on Windows on the same machine.

Thanks. I'm using XAMPP on Ubuntu 12.10, Kohana 2.3, PHP 5.4

Thanks - there's nothing in the Apache or PHP error logs, if that's where you mean? — Will, Dec 21 '12 at 14:11
Well, maybe kohana system is not loading though there should be something in the logs. Nothing not even on application/logs ? — Sorin Trimbitas, Dec 21 '12 at 14:14
Nope, nothing there. It might be worth mentioning I am fairly new to linux and Kohana. — Will, Dec 21 '12 at 14:26
Ahh .. ok then. An idea is this .. download the Kohana 2.3 branch and clean install it. Does it start (are all requirements *green*?) ? If yes .. then change the system/modules folder to be the ones from /opt.... — Sorin Trimbitas, Dec 21 '12 at 14:32
2.3 doesn't work on PHP 5.4, install 5.3, set display_errors to On, and disable E_STRICT — pocesar, Dec 28 '12 at 21:20
2.3 works in PHP 5.4 if you apply this small patch to it : https://gist.github.com/2881489 — Sorin Trimbitas, Jan 05 '13 at 21:15
Confirming that the patch provided by @SorinTrimbitas now gives me output in Kohana 2.3 whereas before I had blank pages like the asker. — sevenseacat, Jul 03 '13 at 03:10
Are your filenames all in lowercase? I think on linux machines you need them to be as they are used — kero, Aug 20 '13 at 22:19

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 03 '13 at 10:06

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Try this..

Edit system/core/Kohana.php
Modify the close_buffers function (around line 626)
Comment out "ob_end_clean();" at the end of the function

answered Oct 03 '13 at 10:06

Chris Darby

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