Long time user of D6 -
I installed a new server with D7 and got everything working, so I thought.
Windows Server 2003 R2
Apache Web 2.2.14
PHP 5.2.12
MySQL 5.0.51a
Full NAT behind a Cisco ASA
When I would navigate to the admin panel I was able to install all the modules, including Orca Forum, with out an error.
The issue is that when I would try to click on Admin -> Modules-> Orca Forum; after about a minute a blank white page would show up.
Same issue from the members side, click on forum and nothing seems to happen, 1 minute later, blank page.
No errors logged, no error messages, just a blank page.
I tried everything, every suggestion I could find. Nothing worked. Then I remembered that in order for me to load the site from inside the firewall at my locaiton, I had to edit my hosts file or edit my inside DNS server to point to the internal IP address of my server and not the outside NAT'd address, as I can not go out the firewall and back in on the same network segment. I thought, what if the server itself is having the same issue, could it be that the server, when requested for the Orca forum, it is doing a DNS lookup on the site name regestered in the install and not being able to serve the Orca Forum because of the NAT and the fact that the server also is inside the NAT?
So I flipped the DNS server setting on the D7 server to my internal, or you can edit the local hosts file, and cleared the DNS cache.
BAMB!! it all started to work. Ofcouse I had to compile the language file, and another reload later, it all works and looks proper.
So I found it wierd, but main code of the site looks to Orca through the FQDN and not a realitive link through the site.
If you are having issues with a blank page that nothing seems to be working, check your NAT, FQDN, and DNS registraion on the server.
I hope this helps someone from having to waste an entire day away!
