Last weekend I upgraded my system and installed Magento. Since my Linux system is still on FC4, I had to download Apache and PHP sources and rebuild them by hand – no yum for you, young man! This was an interesting experience, and was useful in its own right since it allowed me to start using PHP’s built-in SOAP calls in some other software I’m writing.
However, Magento was disappointing. It kind-of sort-of works sometimes, but mostly I get these incredibly irritating blank page errors.
Based on what I’m seeing on their forum, this might be related to PHP 5.2.5. We’ll see …
Update: It seems that by using the private (192.168) IP address instead of localhost and updating httpd.conf to explicitly set the include path, you can get around this problem.
