Trouble with MAMP and some extensions resulting in blank pages in the Control Panel?
Development and Programming
I’ve just started using MAMP for some local development (never really needed it before - just used all the “built-in” Mac stuff and a copy of VirtualHostX to set up my local ‘.dev’ domain names). I think I remember seeing reports where people were having trouble with MAMP and certain Extensions. On my local testing install of EE that I’m now running with MAMP, I notice that (for example) LG TinyMCE and Playa, when enabled, render the Publish and Edit screens blank.
Anyone else have trouble with MAMP and Extensions?
Hi Ryan,
This isn’t really going to help you much but just to say that I have always used MAMP on OSX and have never had a problem with extensions and blank admin screens apart from where the extension has a related language file and perhaps the file isn’t quite right. An update from the author has always fixed that though.
Sorry to have not been of much help on that one. Perhaps there is a conflict with those two extensions? Never used them both together so wouldn’t know about that though.
I do hope you get this sorted soon though. Would be interested to know what it is in the end though.
Best wishes,
Mark
Probably a low memory limit perhaps? You also will want to make sure that error reporting is enabled (display_errors directive set to “On”)
Probably a low memory limit perhaps? You also will want to make sure that error reporting is enabled (display_errors directive set to “On”)
Oops good catch there Derek. I did alter my php.ini file in MAMP to up the memory limit massively many moons ago so that may well be the answer.
Best wishes,
Mark
Derek, thanks for the feedback - I’m still getting acquainted with running things through MAMP. I turned errors on to “Display” and saw I was indeed hitting a memory limit. Fixing was easy enough, too. Just go to “File > Edit Template” and edit the correct php.ini file (apparently you’re not supposed to edit those files directly, as they get rewritten every time the server starts), then restart the servers.
Yeah, don’t edit them directly. Knowing I had to edit them through the edit template section would have saved me hours one day long ago. But MAMP local development rocks. Good luck!
When you say don’t edit directly and File > Edit Templates…Maybe I’m just being dense this morning = Could you explain from where you are editing them.
I guess those files are like “templates” and you should only edit them through the menu, otherwise they’ll just be overwritten the next time the server starts. I attached pics. I’m using MAMP Pro - not sure if that makes a difference. The second pic shows the resulting window for editing the ini file, and where I changed the memory_limit to 24M from the default of 8.
Ok, it’s a MAMP-Pro thing - No such menus in the regular version.
Thank god, I thought I was running into conflicts between LG image/file and Playa. Thanks for figuring this one out guys.
@mdesign I haven’t really found a reason to use MAMP Pro vs the free MAMP until this problem came up. Any other advantages to MAMP Pro you’ve found?