[csw-maintainers] Further improvements to our website

[Sebastian Kayser]

* Sebastian Kayser <skayser at opencsw.org> wrote:
> * Maciej Blizi??ski <maciej at opencsw.org> wrote:
> > I've installed our apache, php and mysql.  I can run phpinfo() - it
> > works.  What doesn't work, is installing mantis.  When enter the top
> > level link, I'm redirected to admin/install.php, and all I see is a
> > blank page.
> 
> I ran into the same issue. Tried Mantis 1.2.5 (latest) and 1.2.4 (just
> to double check) and it wasn't until I hit admin/check.php that I saw
> session module related errors. Installing the PHP5 session module helped
> in my case.
> 
>   pkgutil -i php5_session

Adding to this: what made debugging hard is the use of the @ operator in
install.php which - as I just learnt - suppresses even critical errors,
leaving no indication as to why a script terminates early [1]. Removing
this operator (for the core.php inclusion) should help to identify the
culprit [2].

Sebastian

[1] http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.errorcontrol.php
[2] http://paste.pocoo.org/show/401482/