This question has been answered by sottwell. See the first response.
something changed at around 4pm (GMT) yesterday, which has resulted in a completely blank screen after login
Try going in to the database and in the system_settings table turn off the two feeds, feed_modx_news and feed_modx_security
Quote from: philslorick at Jan 27, 2016, 08:08 AMsomething changed at around 4pm (GMT) yesterday, which has resulted in a completely blank screen after login
I think I know what's going on, and Susan pointed us in the right direction. At just about that time, I think that the entirety of modx.com, presumably including the feeds, enabled SSL, and auto-redirected (http 301) all http:// requests to the equivalent https:// I happened to notice this as I was making a forum post at just about that time, and it was a bit odd during the transition with some of the page http and some https
I just spot-checked one installation; turned on the feeds (I normally keep them off, and monitor outside of MODX), and the dashboard loaded without problem.
I wonder if some sites have server configurations (open_basedir restriction for instance?) that are preventing the fetch of the feed from auto-following the redirect from http to https, with a resultant dashboard crash for some reason.
I can't reproduce it to see any errors logged -- @philslorick & @warenhaus: do you have anything in your php error logs from the time of blank manager? It'd probably be of help.
nothing seemed to be reported in the logs
Quote from: philslorick at Jan 27, 2016, 01:47 PMnothing seemed to be reported in the logs
Anything in your MODX error log (the one accessible from the manager)?
[2016-01-28 15:11:00] (ERROR @ /srv/www/vhosts/MYDOMAIN/htdocs/content/core/model/modx/processors/system/config_check.inc.php : 94) PHP warning: curl_setopt(): CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when safe_mode is enabled or an open_basedir is set
[2016-01-28 15:11:51] (ERROR @ /srv/www/vhosts/MYDOMAIN/htdocs/content/core/model/modx/processors/system/config_check.inc.php : 94) PHP warning: curl_setopt(): CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when safe_mode is enabled or an open_basedir is set
[2016-01-28 15:12:23] (ERROR @ /srv/www/vhosts/MYDOMAIN/htdocs/content/core/model/modx/processors/system/config_check.inc.php : 94) PHP warning: curl_setopt(): CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when safe_mode is enabled or an open_basedir is set
[2016-01-28 15:12:52] (ERROR @ /srv/www/vhosts/MYDOMAIN/htdocs/content/core/model/modx/processors/system/config_check.inc.php : 94) PHP warning: curl_setopt(): CURLOPT_FOLLOWLOCATION cannot be activated when safe_mode is enabled or an open_basedir is set