Why do I get a blank page instead of Joomla?

Question

I am just beginning with Joomla on a linux fedora server (running apache,mysql,php), running in local. I have also installed phpmyadmin.

I have dowloaded/unizip joomla on var/www/html/joomla1 and created a database for joomla1.

Then restarted the server. Selinux is set to permissive.

However when browsing at http://localhost/joomla1/ i simply get a blank page

Any idea what's wrong ? How to fix this ?

Answer 1

Check your database permissions (does the user have permissions to access the data), check your error logs on the server.

Answer 2

Maybe this URL is right?

http://localhost/html/joomla1/

Answer 3

Check /var/log/httpd/error_log Look for anything saying "Fatal:" This will give you an indication of whats causing the problem