Comments for Dynamic Publishing - Blank Screen

Dynamic Publishing - Blank Screen

2009-12-15T13:38:05Z

Hi,

I have MT 4.21. I have enabled Dynamic publishing for a page (index template) in my blog. For now, I am not even giving any dynamic values in the template.
Earlier, I got these errors in the apache log file-
1) "Options not allowed" ::: I set Allowoverride All for that directory in httpd.conf file and it got resolved.
2) "Negotiation: discovered file(s) matching request: > (None could be negotiated" ::: I removed Multiviews on that directory and it got resolved.

Now, when I try to view the page using the URL of the page, its coming up as a blank screen. The template/page opens fine if set as Static mode/Publish Queue. Could someone throw light if I am missing something in the dynamic publishing settings?

I have set Publishing mode as Dynamic for the template. I saw that the file was renamed as .dynamic after that. All other pages in the pages in the blog (with publishing mode set as other than the DYNAMIC mode) can be viewed without any issues.

Regards,
Sivaram

Comment from Mihai Bocsaru on 2009-12-15

2009-12-15T15:55:14Z

Hi Sivaram,

I would guess that your index template contains some coding.

If it doesn't that's why it displays a blank page (empty page).

Also, after you're setting a template to be dynamic you should rebuild the indexes so that a file responsible for displaying dynamic content would be created.

Kind Regards,
Mihai Bocsaru

Comment from Sivaram M on 2009-12-15

2009-12-16T02:27:37Z

Hi Mihai,

Thanks for the response.

I do have the complete code to display all entries for the blog in this index template. In fact, when set as static, all contents get correctly displayed. Its only when set as dynamic that I get this blank page issue. I have tried this with some other pages in the site also and they all given this same issue.
Also, as for rebuilding the indexes, I have published the entire site (blog) after the changes, but still there were no changes. Is there something else I am missing?

Regards,
Sivaram

Comment from betclicroulette on 2009-12-18

2009-12-18T16:58:03Z

If you have set Publishing mode as Dynamic for the template, there shouldn't be any problem IMHO.

Comment from Sivaram M on 2009-12-20

2009-12-21T05:32:49Z

ya, don't know what really is the problem here. :(

Comment from grenade on 2010-01-11

2010-01-11T23:21:19Z

Has there been any further information for troubleshooting or addressing this issue? I am experiencing the same issue in version 5.01.

I have setup a very simple test site from the default installation, using the Classic Website 1.0 theme. I created a blog that publishes to "/blog" and a single test entry. The blog is using the Classic Blog 1.0 theme. Everything looks good when publishing statically.

When I go into the website's templates and set the "Main Index" publishing options to "Dynamically", and republish the site, a empty webpage is loaded. Viewing the source shows no HTML at all.

Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Comment from grenade on 2010-01-12

2010-01-13T00:28:17Z

I think this post is in the wrong section. It should be under "Design, Templates & Tags" rather than "Documentation".

Is there a moderator that can move this thread?

I'm still looking for an answer to the original question as well.

Thanks.

Comment from SunilKT on 2010-01-18

2010-01-19T06:52:23Z

Hi Sivaram and grenade,

Have you set the file extension to be 'php'?
For dynamic publishing, the files should have an extension of .php and In Preferences->Publishing, we should set File extension as php under Archive options.

Thanks,
Sunil

Comment from grenade on 2010-01-19

2010-01-19T23:20:24Z

Hello SunilKT,

thanks for your response. I just tried your suggestion by changing the Output File in Template Options from "index.html" to "index.php". And also under the website General Settings -> Archive Settings -> File Extension to "php".

The dynamic page is still blank. Any other suggestions?

Comment from Bernard C. on 2010-03-23

2010-03-23T07:25:54Z

hello miss beautiful will I'm just a newbies here i guess the problem would not be on the extension file that you have give maybe just maybe you should check the file name of the file if the content was really there.

P.S I'm A newbies and also need some enlightenment...

Comment from miracle1919 on 2011-02-27

2011-02-28T01:30:19Z

I have the same blank page problem with Movable Type Advanced,My main page is like this:

demo test!

however,there is nothing displayed when using dynamic publishing with the php extension,if use static publishing,the page can display normally.

Comment from Kiffin Gish on 2011-11-18

2011-11-18T21:27:56Z

The reason you are getting blank pages is more than likely because you haven't yet installed/configured the mysql shared extension for php.

I'm running a FreeBSD 8.2 web server, and it was necessary to install php5 AS WELL AS the correct php-mysql module (for accessing the database).

I have the following packages installed from the ports:

php52-5.2.17_4 PHP Scripting Language
php52-mysql-5.2.17_4 The mysql shared extension for php
php52-pcre-5.2.17_4 The pcre shared extension for php
apache-2.2.21 Version 2.2.x of Apache web server with prefork MPM.

When building apache, make sure that you run 'make config' first and select the php module to also be installed, before running 'make install clean'

Make sure that the following lines appear in /usr/local/etc/apache22/httpd.conf:

LoadModule php5_module libexec/apache22/libphp5.so

...
AddType application/x-httpd-php .php
AddType application/x-httpd-php-source .phps