Can't load install/index.php

[Kzenn]

I cannot complete the install on a debian 9.5 with apache2, php 7 and mysql 5.6. I am trying to load the install/index.php to complete the setup and it loads a blank page. When I convert the page to HTML it's still blank but I can load files from the WebCalendar repository

I would appreciate any help

[FranzGotsis]

What version of WebCalendar are you running? First thing to check is whether the file is actually at the location you are looking for (FTP-Connect, Provider Tool, SSH, ..).

If the file is there (and the WWW-Server allows the access) you should see at least something. Another test could be to replace index.php (make a backup first) with a simple html-Hello World file, then a PHP hello world file. For instance:

and check whether that works. If this test file works there must be a PHP problem and you should go and check the PHP error logs.

In case you need more help just answer to this post. kind regards Franz Gotsis from Munich

[polymathuk]

I had this problem with a state-of-the-art debian 11 LAMP under LXC. The problem was caused by deprecated @set_magic_quotes_runtime ($magic); function calls in multiple places in the install/index.php file. There were about 5 occurrences that I commented out using // at the beginning of the lines. This fixed it. It's an easy debug by watching tail -f /var/log/apache2/error.log fixing each line and refreshing the web browser page until it succeeds.

[polymathuk]

I should add that this procedure was also required in several places for install/install_functions.php