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Answered fresh install, blank pages, localhost testing.

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    organizedfellow Reply #1, 14 years, 6 months ago
    New user smiley

    I spent several hours browsing the site, and I have been thoroughly impressed with the capabilities and features of ModX.

    I'm no stranger to setting things up on my local box.
    Win7. WAMP. Virtual hosts (I have a dozen sites in various stages of testing and/or development).
    Am a freelance web developer. My PHP skills are decent. My HTML/CSS are well advanced.

    I've just installed Revolution, latest version modx-2.2.0-pl2.zip.
    I was expecting to see some content, a walk-through, something.
    Instead, the homepage URL displays a blank page, and the Manager displays blank pages as well. All that is visible is the navigation bar.

    Is it supposed to be like this? A totally blank canvas?

    This question has been answered by sottwell. See the first response.

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      organizedfellow Reply #2, 14 years, 6 months ago
      Development testing in Firefox 10, and Chrome 18-beta.
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        sottwell Reply #3, 14 years, 6 months ago
        The "home" page, yes. But you definitely have a problem if the Manager isn't displaying properly. Try changing the system_settings "compress_css" and "compress_js" to 0. Also try clearing your browser cache and cookies for localhost.

        If that fails, then try running the Setup again in upgrade mode.
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          organizedfellow Reply #4, 14 years, 6 months ago
          Thank you Susan.

          I have no idea where to find those settings.
          So I did a search for "config*php" in all the files - 22 files.
          (WHOA! That's alot of config files!)

          Searched for the string "system_settings" in all those files and found it in "\core\cache\system_settings\".

          I found those three settings changes in there, and made the changes.
          I have much to learn smiley