After finally installing Dragonfly after some .htaccess drama, now I can't access admin.php. All I get is a blank screen. Index.php gives me the maintenance page.

So I tried the solution in the FAQ. I enabled debugging in config.php, and then tried to run the following command in phpMyAdmin:

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UPDATE `cms_config_custom` SET `cfg_value`='1546' WHERE `cfg_name` = 'debug' AND `cfg_field` = 'error_level';

phpMyAdmin returned the following error:

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#1267 - Illegal mix of collations (latin1_swedish_ci,IMPLICIT) and (utf8_general_ci,COERCIBLE) for operation '='

In addition, the final step described in the FAQ was to "delete config_MAIN_CFG.php from cache dir of dragonfly." I checked, and no such file exists in my cache dir.

Help! What's going on?

I did some searching on google on the error message you get, and it seems to be related to mysql and whether the correct collation is set...

Unfortunatly that's all I know.

ok, anything else... anybody??? I can't get my system set up!

have you asked your host about the error? if it is indeed mysql related thats outside the scope of cpgnuke, though someone may still have the answer

True. I'll try asking them too.

So I fixed the phpMyAdmin issue. It indeed was just a collation config issue. So I ran that query successfully.

So now that that's taken care of, I continued down that FAQ fix for my blank admin page issue.

- I've updated my config.php to enabling debugging
- I've run the above-mentioned query in phpMyAdmin succesfully
- And I've deleted config_MAIN_CFG.php from the cache directory

With all this done... there's been NO change. I still get a blank page trying to access my admin.php! Ahhh!!

BTW: Back during setup, I chose to rename my admin.php file (as suggested for security reasons), and reflected that accordingly in my config.php. This wouldn't have anything to do with this, right?

No it doesn't

If you provide a link to your admin area i could try to get in with a snap.

Here is the temp home of the site...
LINK

even with ph--admin.php?hideallblocks=1 i couldn't get in.
Mostly this is caused by a error/bug inside a file.

If you have access to something like cPanel you can open the "error_log" like: brandonspace.com:2082/...rrlog.html

Then it shows entries with: PARSE ERROR