Failed upgrade from 7.1.2 to 7.2.3 - Nothing but a blank screen
A couple of years ago I started playing with SuiteCRM. I got it up and running and loaded a database with 1000 accounts and 1200 contacts, but put it aside for a while.
Recently, I dug it out again and decided that before trying to resolve some minor problems, I should update it to the current release. So I downloaded the upgrade ZIP files and launched upgradeWizard.
My first problem was some files had wrong ownership, which caused the upgradeWizard to block the update from 7.1.2 to 7.2.3 … After I fixed that, the update ran and displayed a message that it was complete, but it then went to a blank screen. Now when I try to connect to the SuiteCRM URL, I just get a blank screen … no HTML source is ever loaded into the browser.
The sugarcrm.log file prints this one line ever minute:
Mon Jul 25 13:47:02 2016 [31270][1][FATAL] Job 50d6c63f-948a-8eaf-741a-57967ae5445f (AOP Check Inbound Mailboxes) failed in CRON run
I don’t think this is really why it is failing.
Is there a simple way I can run the SuiteCRM code fro m a commandline and get an idea of how far it is getting?
I tried to
cd /home/httpd/SuiteCRM
php -f index.php
… but it just goes silently to the bash prompt with no output.
How can I trace through the execution? (I am a C and PERL programmer; never worked with PHP before>)