seems the upgrade got borked somehow
in the end we had to edit php.ini to reveal the php errors as any topic you clicked on revealed a BLANK PAGE
Code:
[root@www cacheid_6]# cp /usr/local/lib/php.ini /usr/local/lib/php.ini.backup
to turn on php error reporting edit php.ini (use locate php.ini to find it) and edit the following bits
Quote:error_reporting E_ALL display_errors = On
once done restart apache/httpd
the PHP error reported after modifying php.ini was
Quote:Fatal error: Function name must be a string in /usr/local/apache/htdocs/forums/cache/skin_cache/cacheid_6/skin_topic.php on line 696
luckily i backup (check out the apache section of the forums., and look at the backup script) so I restored that file to my webserver and it WORKED
now that it works, time to restore php.ini to it's previous non-error reporting state
Code:
[root@www cacheid_6]# cp /usr/local/lib/php.ini.backup /usr/local/lib/php.inicp: overwrite `/usr/local/lib/php.ini'? y
many thanks to the following
znx, jy, kobras ! and the other linux-noob members who helped out on #linux-noob and the admin channel !
good work dudes
cheers
anyweb