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I have a CiviCRM 2.0.5 with Drupal 5.12 on a dedicated Red Hat server. We have a testing version installed in a subdir of our main site:

$civicrm_root = '/var/www/vhosts/MAIN.org/httpdocs/somedir/dev.dev/sites/all/modules/civicrm';

and this works fine (without clean URLs of course).

We now set up an alternative domain name (a .net name) for this testing site and I copied the entire site into its own vhost directory, so I wanted to set the civicrm root correctly to be this:

$civicrm_root = '/var/www/vhosts/MAIN.net/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm';

Now If I leave the original civicrm_root setting alone (meaning the top one above) then I see

Oops! - The path for including CiviCRM code files is not set properly.
Most likely there is an error in the civicrm_root setting in your CiviCRM settings file (sites/default/civicrm.settings.php).

» civicrm_root is currently set to: .

Yes, nothing is there at the end. Note that the files are still in /var/www/vhosts/MAIN.org/httpdocs/somedir/dev.dev/ and in fact the site there http://MAIN.org/somedir/dev.dev/ also still works fine, including CiviCRM.

Anyhow, aside from that error, the rest of the site works.  Now if I make the root clearly wrong by adding an X at the beginning then I see:

Oops! - The path for including CiviCRM code files is not set properly.
Most likely there is an error in the civicrm_root setting in your CiviCRM settings file (sites/default/civicrm.settings.php).

» civicrm_root is currently set to: /Xvar/www/vhosts/MAIN.org/httpdocs/somedir/dev.dev/sites/all/modules/civicrm.

which is a bit better. If, however, I use the directory which I want to use, i.e.:

$civicrm_root = '/var/www/vhosts/MAIN.net/httpdocs/sites/all/modules/civicrm';

then I get a blank screen in my browser--no output whatsoever.

This is a bit perplexing--the file permissions I believe are the same, but even if they weren't I don't think that explains the blank screen.

Any ideas?

Thanks for the response. Your hunch was along the right lines. There was no error in the logs and I couldn't get to any CiviCRM screens on the new site to check anything so I used some old fashioned debugging (really old fashioned style) until I found that the crash was in the create directory procedure--I searched the DB and found in the domains table where those dirs were defined, and updated the DB directly and then it worked.

I'm still puzzled why it failed, b/c those same directories (and they are absolute references) work on the other site on the same server. Seems like it's a user permissions issue but I thought that both sites work run as the Apache user.

Anyhow, I got it to work. Thanks

ah, makes sense. Thank you very much.