While developing a Drupal website, I was testing out the created pages and suddenly on one page, nothing was loaded. There was just a blank white page – more appropriately called the Drupal White Screen of Death or WSOD. First step I did was to enable error reporting because there might also be problems with the template I was customizing:

Temporarily edit your index.php file and add these lines at the top (after the first opening tag):

error_reporting(E_ALL);
ini_set('display_errors', TRUE);
ini_set('display_startup_errors', TRUE);

// $Id: index.php,v 1.94 2007/12/26…

Then I went back again to the blank white page and I saw that there were some syntax errors in my template. After fixing those errors in my template I deleted again that chunk of code to avoid others seeing diagnostic errors in the site.

It was a quick solution, but if that did not solve your problems, try checking out these links:

• http://drupal.org/node/158043
• http://www.chromaticsites.com/blog/15-common-drupal-problems-that-make-you-scream-solutions-included/

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