Hello Christian,
Thanks for getting back.
On Sun, 12 May 2019 19:27:44 +0200
Christian Boltz
Hello,
Am Freitag, 10. Mai 2019, 11:47:54 CEST schrieb Bob Williams:
On Thu, 09 May 2019 22:25:45 +0200 Christian Boltz wrote:
Am Donnerstag, 9. Mai 2019, 21:12:39 CEST schrieb Bob Williams:
php7-mbstring is installed on my local machine, so I copied the missing files to the Joomla installation. As well as core.php, it also wanted ascii.php.
Just to be sure - are there more files missing?
This improved things to the extent that the white page now contains the single word 'Error'.
The error log now reports:
[Fri May 10 10:33:19.799343 2019] [php7:warn] [pid 30811] [client ::1:54624] PHP Warning: session_start(): Failed to read session data: user (path: /var/lib/php7) in /srv/www/htdocs/brightonbelle.org/libraries/joomla/session/handler/na tive.php on line 260
I have shared native.php here: https://pastebin.com/YEXn4afH
I suspect it might reflect the state of the remote server instance at the time it was downloaded to my local machine, but I'm not fluent in php and wouldn't know what to edit.
I can recommend to google for the error message - the search results include hints for - PHP version vs. joomla version - older joomla won't work with latest PHP, try updating to the latest version - session save path might be wrong, not writeable by PHP etc. - https://forum.joomla.de/thread/5193-nach-template-upload-nichts-geht-mehr/ might also be a reason (in german, use google translate to get the english version)
In general, this looks like a joomla-specific problem, so you might have more luck in a joomla forum or mailinglist.
I'm also not a joomla expert, and therefore run out of ideas ;-)
Regards,
Christian Boltz
I've hunted down all the missing files, and made some corrections in configuration.php and the site now loads, but not completely. My browser complains about the certificate. The remote host provides its own certificate, but as this is just a local installation (not publicly available) I don't need to bother with certificates. Or I need to provide my own, but that's another, different learning curve for me. So, nearly there but not quite. Regards Bob -- Bob Williams System: Linux 4.12.14-lp150.12.58-default Desktop: KDE Frameworks: 5.45.0, Qt: 5.9.4 and Plasma: 5.12.5