No such luck on moving my server outside the firewall. Still a boring blank page looking back at me.

Hey -

A couple of things to check:

1. The IUSR account needs NTFS Modify permissions to the cache, templates_c, & uploads directories. delete all contents from your cache & templates_c directory.
2. Double check the themes directory & make sure that the default theme is present.

Good luck & let me know how it turns out

I actually have the IUSR account with modify permission on the entire root directory and its child objects, and have tried several modifications with the theme based on other posts.

This server is getting re-imaged. I disabled services to make sure nothing was conflicting, but no luck there either.

Thanks for all your suggestions. Anymore are welcome. i'm interested to see if someone throws something out I have read or tried. It would be helpful to put something together that covers all the successful fixes for problems people have faced.

In the wiki there is a page dedicated to troubleshooting blank page situations:

http://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=TroubleshootingBlankPage

You might want to add to it...a Check List, would be a nice idea!