[horde] WTF? Blank test.php - sometimes..

[Rick Romero]

Hey guys, great product, love the show.

I've been running horde for a few years, and I've never had the
following happen:  (I'm building a new server, and the data is copied
from a working installation)

http://66.58.87.12/oldhorde/test.php
works fine, but, is the old version.

I'm trying to get Horde CVS going.  CVS is from about a week ago.
http://66.58.87.12/horde/test.php
gives a blank page.

In fact, copying oldhorde/test.php to horde/test3.php:
http://66.58.87.12/horde/test3.php
gives a blank page.

I'm TOTALLY confused.  I tried dropping in the 'new' PEAR referenced in
the oldhorde/test.php, but that doesn't seem to update me. 

I'm running a fresh install of FreeBSD 4.8, Apache2/PHP 4.3.1 installed
from ports.

Some output:
mail# ls -la /usr/local/etc/php.ini
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel  38422 May  8 20:27 /usr/local/etc/php.ini

mail# pear list
Installed packages:
===================
+----------------+---------+--------+
| Package        | Version | State  |
| Archive_Tar    | 0.9     | stable |
| Console_Getopt | 1.0     | stable |
| DB             | 1.3     | stable |
| HTTP           | 1.2     | stable |
| Mail           | 1.0.1   | stable |
| Net_SMTP       | 1.0     | stable |
| Net_Socket     | 1.0.1   | stable |
| PEAR           | 1.0b3   | stable |
| XML_Parser     | 1.0     | stable |
| XML_RPC        | 1.0.4   | stable |
+----------------+---------+--------+

mail# cd horde
mail# ls -la
total 222
drwxr-xr-x  25 root  wheel   1024 May  8 20:48 .
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   8592 Mar  9 11:35 .#menu.php.2.37
drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel   2048 May  8 20:59 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  25275 Mar  9 11:35 COPYING
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Apr 15 13:33 CVS
....
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9357 May  8 21:00 test.php
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  21643 Mar 10 14:45 test2.php
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  12949 May  8 20:48 test3.php
... etc etc 

mail# cd oldhorde
mail# ls -la
total 108
drwxr-xr-x  14 root  wheel   1024 May  8 20:49 .
drwxr-xr-x  20 root  wheel   2048 May  8 20:59 ..
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  25275 Feb 11  2000 COPYING
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel     98 Dec 17 15:19 Changes-Rick
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   2109 Dec 16  2001 README
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Mar 25 11:19 config
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   2536 Jan  2  2002 css.php
drwxr-xr-x   2 root  wheel    512 Dec 11 08:17 docs
...
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel  12949 Jun 10  2002 test.php
-rw-r--r--   1 root  wheel   9357 May  9 07:27 testcvs.php
... etc etc

testcvs.php is test.php from horde/ directory.

When I first started, test.php was blank, BUT the login page would show
up with errors that Log.php couldn't be opened.  After reinstalling PHP
from ports, even the login page stopped showing up.

I think it's some kind of session issue, I enabled logging to syslog
from php.ini and /var/log/messages has a slew of:
May  9 07:31:22 mail /kernel: pid 30625 (httpd), uid 80: exited on
signal 11
May  9 07:31:22 mail /kernel: pid 30628 (httpd), uid 80: exited on
signal 11

http://66.58.87.12/phpweblog/
seems to work fine, BUT also sends errors to syslog:
May  9 07:32:50 mail httpd: PHP Notice:  Undefined variable:  icon in
/usr/local/www/data.default/phpweblog/include/layout.inc.php(125) :
eval()'d code on line 13
May  9 07:32:50 mail httpd: PHP Notice:  Undefined index: 
69ab827b0e71a6e39e8fdbbd781d3cfe in
/usr/local/www/data.default/phpweblog/include/func.inc.php on line 170

Which to me, (the uninitiated) appear to be another session issue..

php.ini has:

[Session]
; Handler used to store/retrieve data.
session.save_handler = files
session.save_path = /tmp
session.use_cookies = 1
; attacks which involve passing session ids in URLs; defaults to 0.
; session.use_only_cookies = 1
session.name = PHPSESSID
session.auto_start = 0
session.cookie_lifetime = 0

and I have /tmp/sess_1231231   files..

I'm totally stuck as to why this is happening..  Any ideas?

Thanks!

Rick