Blank Page during Fresh Install

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1

Howdy everyone,

 

I’m trying to do a fresh install of phpVMS 7 on a VPS using Docker. However, I’m only getting a blank page, meaning I’m not even making it to the installer.

 

More details:

  • OS: Debian 12 Bookworm

  • Base Docker Image: php:8-apache

    • Apache: version 2.4.59, enabled rewrite module, so things like .htaccess work
    • PHP: verison 8.3.6, has all required extensions installed

  • phpVMS Version: 7 beta 5

    • Directly uploaded (Option 4)

  • Traefik used as reverse proxy, and it’s working fine as I can reach the phpVMS container

  • The page is completely blank

    • When I add echo statements to public/index.php, I can see them. So that means that I am reaching the container, and PHP can return something if it wants to

  • No logs in storage/logs

  • No PHP logs

 

I’m starting to run out of ideas…maybe someone can help out? Thanks in advance!

2

Don’t use beta 5. Use the latest dev release available from the discord #v7-releases channel.

Directly upload that package and extract to the chosen phpvms folder.

If you set up a sub-domain for phpVMS, use option #1 in the docs to install.

3

Hey , thanks for pointing to the dev releases. Didn’t know those were there.

 

I tried out the latest dev release but still ended up with a blank page. I figured out how to get proper error logging turned on, and I see this:

Uncaught Error: Call to a member function connection() on null in /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php:1819
Stack trace:
#0 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php(1785): Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Model::resolveConnection(NULL)
#1 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php(1576): Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Model->getConnection()
#2 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php(1495): Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Model->newBaseQueryBuilder()
#3 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php(1531): Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Model->newModelQuery()
#4 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php(1484): Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Model->newQueryWithoutScopes()
#5 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php(2334): Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Model->newQuery()
#6 /var/www/html/vendor/prettus/l5-repository/src/Prettus/Repository/Eloquent/BaseRepository.php(1152): Illuminate\\Database\\Eloquent\\Model->__call('where', Array)
#7 /var/www/html/vendor/prettus/l5-repository/src/Prettus/Repository/Eloquent/BaseRepository.php(557): Prettus\\Repository\\Eloquent\\BaseRepository->applyConditions(Array)
#8 /var/www/html/vendor/prettus/l5-repository/src/Prettus/Repository/Traits/CacheableRepository.php(315): Prettus\\Repository\\Eloquent\\BaseRepository->findWhere(Array, Array)
#9 /var/www/html/app/Repositories/SettingRepository.php(43): App\\Repositories\\SettingRepository->findWhere(Array, Array)
#10 /var/www/html/app/helpers.php(181): App\\Repositories\\SettingRepository->retrieve('general_theme')
#11 /var/www/html/app/Http/Middleware/SetActiveTheme.php(55): setting('general.theme', 'default')
#12 /var/www/html/app/Exceptions/Handler.php(54): App\\Http\\Middleware\\SetActiveTheme->setTheme(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request))
#13 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Bootstrap/HandleExceptions.php(217): App\\Exceptions\\Handler->render(Object(Illuminate\\Http\\Request), Object(UnexpectedValueException))
#14 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Bootstrap/HandleExceptions.php(194): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Bootstrap\\HandleExceptions->renderHttpResponse(Object(UnexpectedValueException))
#15 /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Foundation/Bootstrap/HandleExceptions.php(254): Illuminate\\Foundation\\Bootstrap\\HandleExceptions->handleException(Object(UnexpectedValueException))
#16 [internal function]: Illuminate\\Foundation\\Bootstrap\\HandleExceptions->Illuminate\\Foundation\\Bootstrap\\{closure}(Object(UnexpectedValueException))
#17 {main}
  thrown in /var/www/html/vendor/laravel/framework/src/Illuminate/Database/Eloquent/Model.php on line 1819

Any clue about this? :slightly_smiling_face:

4

If possible try something from php8.2 series to be sure ('cause php8.3 support is not official at the moment so eliminate that risk)

 

And I assume your docker has a compatible database server, like mysql or mariadb and it is configured + running. This looks like a db issue to me.

 

Good luck

5

Hi, sorry, life got busy and I had to put this on hold for a bit.

 

I did a fresh upload of the latest dev release following my break, and I’m still running into the same problem. Switching to PHP 8.2 changes nothing. Also, I do have a MariaDB instance running. However, it can’t be a database issue when I haven’t even gotten the chance to tell phpVMS how to connect to it. These problems are preventing me from even reaching the installer page.

6

Probably you still have the same config error somewhere, your docker image is not able to load up the application at all.

7

Works just fine now on PHP 8.3. The issue was a mismatch of the Apache user and the owner of all the phpVMS files.

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