Fresh install produces a blank page

Greetings Wackos

I have just finished installing/setting up Wacko 6.0.15 on a XAMPP x64 7.4.13-0-VC15 (XAMPP 8.0.0-2-VS16 does not support IPS 4.4.9.2)

I did have to change the "const CACHE_SESSION_DIR" setting in config/constants.php. After that all of the things were checked off.

It said everything was installed correctly, but when I clicked on "take me to the wiki" it gave me a blank page.

Following the advice in this thread I enabled error reporting. I then hit ctrl+F5 on my wiki url and got this error
(formatted to be easier to read)

Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Normalizer' not found in F:\ff\htdocs\wiki\class\ut.php:586 Stack trace:
#0 F:\ff\htdocs\wiki\class\wacko.php(6807): Ut::normalize('ForgottenFreedo...')
#1 F:\ff\htdocs\wiki\index.php(62): Wacko->run('ForgottenFreedo...', 'show')
#2 {main} thrown in F:\ff\htdocs\wiki\class\ut.php on line 586

Line 6807 of class/wacko.php is

 $tag = Ut::normalize($tag);

Line 62 of index.php is

 $engine->run($route['page'], $route['method']);

Line 586 of ut.php is

 static function normalize($string, $form = Normalizer::FORM_C)

Even if my PHP was not rusty, I still would not know where to begin to try and fix my issue.

System specs:

Windows 10
XAMPP 7.4.13
- Includes: Apache 2.4.46
- MariaDB 10.4.17
- PHP 7.4.13
- phpMyAdmin 5.0.4
- OpenSSL 1.1.1
- XAMPP Control Panel 3.2.4
- Webalizer 2.23-04
- Mercury Mail Transport System 4.63
- FileZilla FTP Server 0.9.41
- Tomcat 7.0.107 (with mod_proxy_ajp as connector)
- Strawberry Perl 5.32.0.1 Portable
Wacko r6.0.15

If there is any other information you need just let me know, and I will respond as soon as I can.

Thank you in advance.
*Brean*

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Comments

Re: Fresh install produces a blank page

It seems that the intl extension is missing.
```
Fatal error: Uncaught Error: Class 'Normalizer' not found	
```
I tested only XAMPP for Linux, so I guessing that the intl extension is not enabled by default in XAMPP for Windows.

I found two possible issues:
1. How can I enable PHP extension intl in XAMPP for Windows?
  - Stop XAMPP and remove the starting semicolon ( ; ) from your xampp/php/php.ini the following code.
```
 ;extension=php_intl.dll	
```
    Restart XAMPP.
2. XAMPP Intl extension on Windows 10 can't be installed
  - XAMPP setup filename is contain VCXX for example xampp-windows-x64-7.4.13-0-VC15-installer.exe, VC15 mean that PHP compiled with Visual Studio 2017, so you need to install Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017 to make PHP and Extensions running smoothly.
Please check and ensure that the intl extension is enabled and installed correctly.
- WikiAdmin
- 08.01.2021 14:03
- 11.03.2022 12:22 edited

Re: Fresh install produces a blank page

I had a detailed reply, but when I hit "post" it said

Session terminated due to timeout.
Welcome back, Breantique

so my detailed reply is lost to the inervoid.

I followed the direction on that link, but then MySQL stopped connecting. Without MySQL I can't test to see if the wiki is fixed.
Reverting the file change did not fix it.

I'm looking in to how to fix that now.

Edit:
The log from XAMPP MySQL

InnoDB: using atomic writes.
2021-01-08  9:53:47 0 [Note] InnoDB: Mutexes and rw_locks use Windows interlocked functions
2021-01-08  9:53:47 0 [Note] InnoDB: Uses event mutexes
2021-01-08  9:53:47 0 [Note] InnoDB: Compressed tables use zlib 1.2.11
2021-01-08  9:53:47 0 [Note] InnoDB: Number of pools: 1
2021-01-08  9:53:47 0 [Note] InnoDB: Using SSE2 crc32 instructions
2021-01-08  9:53:47 0 [Note] InnoDB: Initializing buffer pool, total size = 16M, instances = 1, chunk size = 16M
2021-01-08  9:53:47 0 [Note] InnoDB: Completed initialization of buffer pool
2021-01-08  9:53:48 0 [Note] InnoDB: 128 out of 128 rollback segments are active.
2021-01-08  9:53:48 0 [Note] InnoDB: Creating shared tablespace for temporary tables
2021-01-08  9:53:48 0 [Note] InnoDB: Setting file 'F:\ff\mysql\data\ibtmp1' size to 12 MB. Physically writing the file full; Please wait ...
2021-01-08  9:53:48 0 [Note] InnoDB: File 'F:\ff\mysql\data\ibtmp1' size is now 12 MB.
2021-01-08  9:53:48 0 [Note] InnoDB: Waiting for purge to start
2021-01-08  9:53:48 0 [Note] InnoDB: 10.4.17 started; log sequence number 26560192; transaction id 11863
2021-01-08  9:53:48 0 [Note] InnoDB: Loading buffer pool(s) from F:\ff\mysql\data\ib_buffer_pool
2021-01-08  9:53:48 0 [Note] Plugin 'FEEDBACK' is disabled.

Besides the Feedback plugin being disabled I can't see any other issues. From what I have been reading that is supposed to be an optional thing. Correct me if I'm wrong.

Re: Fresh install produces a blank page

I fixed it.
Somehow - I don't know how -
```
 mysql/bin/my.ini/enable-named-pipe	
```
and
```
 mysql/bin/my.ini/skip-networking	
```
had been un-commented.
I don't remember making those changes this morning, but here we are.

Also, I forgive you for making the defer change. If it makes your site more secure I am sure we can all learn to live with it. :P
- Breantique
- 08.01.2021 15:55
- 08.01.2021 15:56 edited
Re: Fresh install produces a blank page

So it works now and what was the culprit?
- WikiAdmin
- 08.01.2021 15:57
Re: Fresh install produces a blank page

I am not sure how those two settings got changed in the first place. I disabled them both and MySQL connected again in the XAMPP cp.

The next issue was that the user account I had created in the database "ff_admin" disappeared and all the tables for Wacko are empty or "don't exist"
```
  #1932 - Table 'ff_wiki.wiki_acl' doesn't exist in engine	
```
Because the tables are empty I get
```
 Error loading WackoWiki config data: database `config` table is empty.	
```
when I go to localhost/wiki

Going to try a reinstall...
- Breantique
- 08.01.2021 16:08
Re: Fresh install produces a blank page

I could not figure out why the database was freaking out.
> I uninstalled Wacko, IPS and XAMPP and restarted my computer
> Reinstalled XAMPP to "F:/ff" (My community will be called "Forgotten Freedom") and restarted again
> Moved WackoWiki files from the archive to "F:/ff/wiki
> Changed htdocs/wiki/config/constants.php
```
const CACHE_SESSION_DIR     = '/tmp';	
```
to
```
const CACHE_SESSION_DIR     = '/ff/tmp';	
```
>> I also changed "const PHP_ERROR_REPORTING" to 6 in the same file
> and changed php/php.ini
```
;extension=intl	
```
to
```
extension=intl	
```
> restarted my computer and used FireFox 84.0.0.1 (64 bit) to go to "localhost/wiki" to start the instructions

> Went through the rest of the set up process

Since this is on my local machine, and I am the only one that uses my computer I didn't feel it necessary to remove the write privileges to the Wacko folders.

This install was successful. I now see the WackoWiki front page on my localhost domain

Next step is to reinstall IPS. Wish me luck, I hope it doesn't break anything now.
- Breantique
- 08.01.2021 17:27
- 13.01.2022 12:19 edited
Re: Fresh install produces a blank page

tmp folder for XAMPP Windows
The default tmp/ folder for XAMPP Windows resides under C:\xampp\tmp.

define('CACHE_SESSION_DIR', '/xampp/tmp');
- WikiAdmin
- 09.01.2021 11:32
Re: Fresh install produces a blank page

This has already been resolved, WackoWiki was installed. My new problem is posted here.

Also, Default location is in C:/xampp, but I installed to F:/ff/
- Breantique
- 09.01.2021 13:38