Enabling plugins sometimes kills site – random

  • sstillwell

    (@sstillwell)


    17 years, 2 months ago

    Running WP2.1

    OpenSuSE 10.2
    Apache 2.2.3
    MySQL 5.0.26
    PHP 5.2.0

    P4 2.8GHz, Hyperthreading on
    1GB RAM
    80GB HD, 65GB free.

    When enabling plugins, it seems somewhat random that enabling a plug will totally bork the site…no 404s, no errors per se, just an empty page returned from every URL.

    Most recently, I enabled Photon, then set the options and saved…poof, gone. Restore db from backup.

    Am I doing something wrong? I’m very new to WordPress, but not so new to LAMP.

    Regards,

    Scott

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  • Thread Starter sstillwell

    (@sstillwell)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Anybody?

    Moderator Samuel Wood (Otto)

    (@otto42)

    WordPress.org Admin

    17 years, 2 months ago

    It’s possible for a malfunctioning plugin to prevent the site from displaying. However, deactivating a plugin in this scenario (and restoring the site) is as simple as removing the plugin’s php files.

    If you find that the database is becoming damaged, then I would look elsewhere. Most plugins don’t touch the database (some do, admittedly).

    Thread Starter sstillwell

    (@sstillwell)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    Thanks, I’ll check it out.

    Scott

    timok

    (@timok)

    17 years, 2 months ago

    The empty page most likely comes from the error_reporting/display_errors settings in PHP. You can either check the error_log or change your settings (see the php manual)

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