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    • 38488
    • 2 Posts
    First time user of ModX, running in XAMPP on windows (also tried WAMP). Installed the software and went to the manager, the main page works fine. However, as soon as I navigate away from the main page to another page, there is no content below the navigation bar. Even clicking the link for the dashboard doesn't work, I have to log-out and back in. I can't access anything but the main page.
      • 38490
      • 3 Posts
      Thank god I'm not the only person having this trouble. Sounds like I've got the exact same thing; nav bar is there, but all the content from every manager page is empty - except the dashboard.

      What setup are you running this on? I'm on Xampp 1.7.1 with PHP Version 5.2.9 with safe mode definitely off, running on Windows XP, I've checked that permissions are 777 on all files, database access seems fine. All front-facing pages seem to be loading as expected.

      Just so we're on the same page, drspork, are you sure your file permissions are set so PHP can write to them where it needs to?
        • 38488
        • 2 Posts
        My permissions are set, today I wiped it and installed 2.1 and it works fine
          • 10913
          • 66 Posts
          Are there any advises in this kind of situation? I've got this second time now. I can't remember what I did in the first time but I got it working.

          Upgraded from 2.1 to 2.2-pl2 and got blank manager page. Dashboard works ok, but I get errors in inspector.
          TypeError: 'undefined' is not an object (evaluating 'I.prototype') ext-base.js:7
          TypeError: 'undefined' is not a constructor (evaluating 'new b[d.xtype||e](d)') ext-all.js:7
          


          From where should I start debugging?
          Upgrade process had a warning about suhosin not having enough memory. I'm not sure if this is the problem.
            The sun always shines for tough guys.
            • 10913
            • 66 Posts
            So I'll answer this myself then. Got a mysql access and changed compress_js and compress_css from 1 to 0 and purged the cache with sftp-client. Got it working.

            Although installer informed compression would be turned off it wasn't.
              The sun always shines for tough guys.
              • 33990
              • 23 Posts
              @Glen you're right - I had the same problem and there is a more in-depth discussion on this thread:

              https://forums.modx.com/thread/72961/resources-tree-missing-and-blank-pages-for-tabs?page=2#dis-post-405833

              For anyone else, here's the solution:

              1) Use phpMyAdmin (or whatever) to change the following settings in the modx_system_settings table of your database:
              compress_css = 0
              compress_js = 0

              2) Delete everything from the core/cache directory on your MODX site before logging in to the manager