Nothing to see on my site after installation

[matusco]

I've installed Joomla 3.0.0 on my:
Windows 8 Enterprise, IIS 8, SQL 2012 Express Edition, PHP 5.3.17 nts.

After installation (succesfull) I can manage my site in administration console, but there's nothing to see on main page of my site. Nothing. Viewing page source code shows me blank file... :-(

I don't know how to continue, what to check, because this is my "first touch" with Joomla.

Thanks for your help.

[imanickam]

What happens when you type your-domain-name/index.php in the address bar of the browser?

[matusco]

http://localhost/joomla30/administration/ (without typing "index.php")
I can see nice logon screen, I can log in as admin, I can manage my site
http://localhost/joomla30/ (also with adding "index.php")
Nothing to see, white blank page. After pressing <Ctrl - U> in my FF 15.0.1 - there's nothing in source code, totally nothing. But I tried to open the site in IE 10, I got an error HTTP 500: The website cannot display the page. (administration also works fine)

File c:\inetpub\wwwroot\joomla30\index.php already exists and is not empty (look at attachement).

I just followed 4 steps on installation screen (including creating configuration.php) and then deleted "install" folder. I didn't make any changes to any file in joomla.

[Webdongle]

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I just followed 4 steps on installation screen (including creating configuration.php) and then deleted "install" folder. I didn't make any changes to any file in joomla.

Did the configuration.php not auto create ? If you had to create it manually then you may have a Permissions issue on the server ?

[humvee]

Please run the Forum Post Assistant to provide the information to help us try and resolve the issue.
Please follow the instructions in the post and the program pack closely.

[matusco]

Did the configuration.php not auto create ? If you had to create it manually then you may have a Permissions issue on the server ?

Configuration.php was not created automatically, I had to create it manually. After your reply I tried to add permission "Modify" for "Everyone" on my c:\inetpub\wwwroot\joomla30 folder (its my own notebook), but without any change.

Maybe I missed something important in installation notes, but I don't know what to do else... :-(

[matusco]

Joomla! Instance :: Joomla! 3.0.0-Stable (Ember) 27-September-2012
Joomla! Platform :: Joomla Platform 12.1.0-Stable (Louis Landry) 10-May-2012
Joomla! Configured :: Yes | Writable (666) | Owner: 0 (uid: /gid: ) | Group: 0 (gid: ) | Valid For: 3.0
Configuration Options :: Offline: 0 | SEF: 1 | SEF Suffix: 0 | SEF ReWrite: 0 | .htaccess/web.config: No | GZip: 0 | Cache: 0 | FTP Layer: 0 | SSL: N/A | Error Reporting: default | Site Debug: 0 | Language Debug: 0 | Default Access: 1 | Unicode Slugs: 0 | Database Credentials Present: Yes

Host Configuration :: OS: Windows NT | OS Version: 6.2 | Technology: i586 | Web Server: Microsoft-IIS/8.0 | Encoding: gzip, deflate | Doc Root: C:/inetpub/wwwroot | System TMP Writable: No

PHP Configuration :: Version: 5.3.17 | PHP API: cgi-fcgi | Session Path Writable: Unknown | Display Errors: | Error Reporting: 22527 | Log Errors To: C:\Windows\temp\php-errors.log | Last Known Error: | Register Globals: | Magic Quotes: | Safe Mode: | Open Base: | Uploads: 1 | Max. Upload Size: 2M | Max. POST Size: 8M | Max. Input Time: 60 | Max. Execution Time: 300 | Memory Limit: 128M

MySQL Configuration :: Connection Error: : Database Credentials Present? in Configuration...

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Potential Missing Extensions :: suhosin |

Switch User Environment (Experimental) :: PHP CGI: Yes | Server SU: No | PHP SU: Yes | Custom SU (LiteSpeed/Cloud/Grid): Yes
Potential Ownership Issues: No

Core Folders :: images/ (777) | components/ (777) | modules/ (777) | plugins/ (777) | language/ (777) | templates/ (777) | cache/ (777) | logs/ (777) | tmp/ (777) | administrator/components/ (777) | administrator/modules/ (777) | administrator/language/ (777) | administrator/templates/ (777) |

Elevated Permissions (First 10) :: administrator/ (777) | administrator/cache/ (777) | administrator/components/ (777) | administrator/components/com_admin/ (777) | administrator/components/com_admin/controllers/ (777) | administrator/components/com_admin/helpers/ (777) | administrator/components/com_admin/helpers/html/ (777) | administrator/components/com_admin/models/ (777) | administrator/components/com_admin/models/forms/ (777) | administrator/components/com_admin/sql/ (777) |

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[humvee]

Unusual certainly that the configuration.php was not created automatically on a Windows system and the fact that it is showing 666 means that the configuration.php is writeable (644 is the recommended setting for this whilst setting up the site). Ownership and permission issues are not noted as a likely problem, other than the usual windows issue that they are too accessible.
However what is an issue, and possibly THE issue, is that the system tmp/ directory is not writeable.

How did you install and configure IIS, MySQL and PHP perhaps refer to my thread at the top of the 2.5 IIS forum for some helpful links.

[matusco]

Unusual certainly that the configuration.php was not created automatically on a Windows system and the fact that it is showing 666 means that the configuration.php is writeable (644 is the recommended setting for this whilst setting up the site). Ownership and permission issues are not noted as a likely problem, other than the usual windows issue that they are too accessible.
However what is an issue, and possibly THE issue, is that the system tmp/ directory is not writeable.

How did you install and configure IIS, MySQL and PHP perhaps refer to my thread at the top of the 2.5 IIS forum for some helpful links.

In my previous post I wrote, that I had to create configuration.php manually and THEN I tried to set permissions for "Everyone" to "Modify" (I'm trying to run Joomla on my personal NB)

My system TMP folder (c:\users\my_username\AppData\Local\Temp\) is writable - no doubt.

So OK, i'll check installation notes for 2.5 version...

[Webdongle]

its my own notebook

What virtual server are you using on your notepad ?

Perhaps try xammp as the virtual server for localhost ?

You do mean you are installing Joomla on your notebook ... yes ?

When Joomla installs on a a correctly configured server(be it a remote server or virtual localhost server) then it writes the configuration.php file.

[matusco]

I gave up... :-(

I'm new to Joomla, I red at download site that version 3.0.0 is for "... early adopters" but I'd rather try older version 2.5.x

Yesterday I installed 2.5.7 on my developer notebook (Win8 x64 Ent, IIS8, MS SQL 2012 EE) and everything works fine, without any problems during or after installation. I'll check later the newest 3.x.x version, maybe in couple of month...

Appreciate your efforts.

[humvee]

I gave up... :-(

I'm new to Joomla, I red at download site that version 3.0.0 is for "... early adopters" but I'd rather try older version 2.5.x

Yesterday I installed 2.5.7 on my developer notebook (Win8 x64 Ent, IIS8, MS SQL 2012 EE) and everything works fine, without any problems during or after installation. I'll check later the newest 3.x.x version, maybe in couple of month...

Appreciate your efforts.

You are not giving up, you are perhaps being realistic under the circumstances.
If there are issues that have yet to be identified for the IIS / MSSQL model then waiting till later is not the wrong thing to do.

3.5 LTS, the next "real" step up from 2.5 LTS, is cited for release in September 2013 or possibly March 2014 which is the point where most of the current issues will have been identified, fixed, or documented as to the causation to help other users (provided the community resource to do the last one is available which is not easy to get for IIS/MSSQL unfortunately).