Losing functionality [Solved]

[viragotech]

make sure and check with your host, often when I hit a white page, they had made a change on me server side.

[JMS]

good suggestion

[Helter]

JMS, im fairly certain this is a corrupted PCP file. If you cannot find the bad file, pm me your ftp info and I can fix it for you

[JMS]

I am going to start from scratch in a few or go with some other members site so it's no biggie but your offer is quite the generous one.

[Helter]

no problem. Over the years Ive done this for around 50 members so let me know if you still have problems

[JMS]

Problem solved. Not sure what happened to cause it. But I reuploaded file by file and when I uploaded all profile pages it started working, Compered all older files with the newer ones and saw absolutely no difference. Maybe since done outside of legacy file manager. So mark this issue resolved.

[JMS]

Happened again
this time I was in acp forum management+ and got a cracker tracker error then immediate white screen
Whole site

[Helter]

be sure that in ACP/eXtreme styles/configuration that
"Check switches while compiling" = "off"
and
"Shows errors when files are incorrectly included in tpl files"
and
"Add tpl filenames in html"
are set to no

Ive found a few server setups generate errors and these settings seem to make comments in the cache files that white out the pages

[JMS]

The entire site white screened how do I get in?

[Helter]

use your ftp program and empty the cache folder of everything but index.html and .htaccess.
that may get you in, but you will probably have to edit your includes/def_tree.php since it was the edit forum function that set it off.
You probably have broken comments added to the file.
the top should look like this

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<?php
/***************************************************************************
 *                  def_tree_def.php
 *                  ----------------
 *   begin         : 12/11/2003
 *   copyright      : Ptirhiik
 *   email         : admin@rpgnet-fr.com
 *
 *   version         : 1.0.0 - 12/11/2003
 *
 *   last update      : 2006-04-17 11:33:07 (GMT) by Michaelo *
 ***************************************************************************/

but you probably have something like this

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<?php <!--- some info --
/***************************************************************************
 *                  def_tree_def.php
 *                  ----------------
 *   begin         : 12/11/2003
 *   copyright      : Ptirhiik
 *   email         : admin@rpgnet-fr.com
 *
 *   version         : 1.0.0 - 12/11/2003
 *
 *   last update      : 2006-04-17 11:33:07 (GMT) by Michaelo *
 ***************************************************************************/

remove all remnants of the comments and see if that solves your issue. Be sure to check the end of the file also.
If you did anything with qbar you may also have to do this for def_qbar.php.
If this continues even with the eXtreme styles settings i posted, you can turn off caching by editing includes/functions_categories_hierarchy.php
look for

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define('CACHE_TREE', true);
define('CACHE_WORDS', true);
define('CACHE_THEMES', true);

and change to

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define('CACHE_TREE', false);
define('CACHE_WORDS', false);
define('CACHE_THEMES', false);