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Asked: 2026-05-27T01:22:29+00:00

Just changed themes with drupal and I’m left with white screen of death. Default

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Just changed themes with drupal and I’m left with white screen of death. Default theme which worked was Zen. This is stored under sites/mysite.com/themes
Theme I changed to I think is one of the themes under themes/
Don’t have access to the database. Have FTP access.
Is there any way to change themes or install one that will work?

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  1. Editorial Team

    The easiest way to correct your problem is to find what’s wrong.

    go to index.php and add the following lines after <?php

    ini_set('display_errors',1);
error_reporting(E_ALL|E_STRICT);

    Then post the error here.
    Don’t forget to comment/remove when you’re done.

    EDIT:

    If I understood correctly this was what you did before going WSOD.

    1. You were using Zen theme.
    2. You logged into your site with administrator privileges and went to http://yoursite.com/admin
    3. You went to the theme management and changed your theme to another one (henceforth refered as “theme_b”)
    4. When refreshed the page (or went to another page in your site) you got the WSOD.

    .

    If this is true then follow these steps:

    Create a blank theme.
    In order to do this, create a folder in your computer named “theme_b”.

    Inside create the following files:
    theme_b.info, template.php, style.css and page.tpl.php

    Open theme_b.info and paste this:

    name = theme_b
description = bla
version = 1
core = 6.x
engine = phptemplate
stylesheets[all][] = style.css

    Save.

    Open page.tpl.php and paste this:

    <!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <?php print $head ?>
    <title><?php print $head_title ?></title>
    <?php print $styles ?>
    <?php print $scripts ?>
</head>
<body>
<div><?php print theme('links', $primary_links, array('class' => 'links primary-links')) ?></div>
<div><?php print theme('links', $secondary_links, array('class' => 'links secondary-links')) ?></div>
<div id="sidebar-left" class="sidebar"><?php print $left ?></div>
<div>
<?php if ($tabs): print '<div id="tabs-wrapper" class="clear-block">'; endif; ?>
<?php if ($title): print '<h2'. ($tabs ? ' class="with-tabs"' : '') .'>'. $title .'</h2>'; endif; ?>
<?php if ($tabs): print '<ul class="tabs primary">'. $tabs .'</ul></div>'; endif; ?>
<?php if ($tabs2): print '<ul class="tabs secondary">'. $tabs2 .'</ul>'; endif; ?>
<?php if ($show_messages && $messages): print $messages; endif; ?>
<?php print $help; ?>
</div>
<div>
<?php print $content; ?>
</div>
</body>
</html>

    Save.

    Then upload the folder theme_a to sites/yoursite.com/themes replacing existing theme_a folder.

    This should enable you to access admin section of drupal.

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