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Asked: 2026-06-05T23:19:23+00:00

Firstly some background,.. IVe started a new job as PHP developer with a company

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Firstly some background,..

IVe started a new job as PHP developer with a company that hosts 2 Drupal (6.x) sites.

While I have years of experience in PHP, Drupal ( and indeed off the shelf content management systems in general ) is a new one on me. Still, there is loads of documentation and its not rocket science, so no problems there.

The server environment is IIS (live server 7.0, locally 7.5) IIS is a totally new beast to me too, so it adds to teh learning curve.

I have successfully gotten a clean install of Drupal (7.x) to run locally, so I know the server is up and running correctly

The problem happens when I try to pull down the live site. I have replicated the database locally, and I know that it is connecting, however when I try to run the local site I get a blank page with the following source c ode: 

 <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <?include '_inc_head_common.tpl.php';?>
  </head>

  <body id="body">

      <?include '_inc_header.tpl.php';?>
      <?include '_inc_content_3col.tpl.php';?>
      <?include '_inc_footer.tpl.php';?>
  </body>
</html>

So it seems that it is getting to a point and no further..

has anyone encountered this before or could someone point me in the direction that I should be looking at?

Thanks

Kevin

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  1. Editorial Team

    Check your PHP configuration on your dev PC. That page is using PHP Short Open Tags (<? instead of <?php) which may not be enabled on your machine. You can find the setting in your php.ini file.

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