phpinfo says: MySQL Client API version 3.23.49
http://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=XoopsRequirements says: You will likely have difficulties with 3.23.49a-MAX

Questions:
1) Is this the same MySQL version?
2) What difficulties can be expected? Blank pages I suppose!
3) Should I blame the hosting company and be sorry that I didn't choose to do my own hosting?
4) Or is it something else...

Thanks.

Yes, I've found http://wiki.xoops.org/wakka.php?wakka=TroubleshootingBlankPage
I've turned on debugging, but blank page keeps laughing at me.

First I tried xoops-2.0.7.tar.bz2, which had to be converted on a local pc because my hosting company doesn't seem to support bzip2. Because I wanted to make sure the errors didn't occur because of this conversion, I also tried xoops-2.0.6.tgz, see below

shell:~/xoops206$ tar -zxvf ../xoops-2.0.6.tgz
shell:~/xoops206$ cd html
shell:~/xoops206/html$ cp -r * ../../public_html/

ftp> cd public_html
250 CWD command successful.
ftp> chmod 777 uploads/
200 SITE CHMOD command successful
ftp> chmod 777 cache/
200 SITE CHMOD command successful
ftp> chmod 777 templates_c/
200 SITE CHMOD command successful
ftp> chmod 666 mainfile.php
200 SITE CHMOD command successful

http://mysite.name
Clicked through install successfully, no errors, so I got to
Installation Complete
Your site
Click HERE to see the home page of your site.

http://mysite.name/index.php
This gives a blank page, with following html source:





http://mysite.name/admin.php
You don't have the right to access this area
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
If the page does not automatically reload, please click here


The hosted environment has safe mode on, register_globals off
More details: http://phpinfo.dds.nl/index.php
These restrictions make it impossible for some other (cms) packages to use. Finally I found XOOPS which seemed to meet my requirements ...
Also tried MySQL persistent On in XOOPS installer, same results.

This is strange indeed. The PHP and MySQL versions are good, so I'm guessing it is a theme issue or something. Can you go to user.php and login directly, and then go to admin.php and install a module? If that works, then it proably is a theme issue.

Herko

SOLVED

By chance just today the hosting company introduced a new data storage system and made some changes concerning shell. Shell user group seems to have changed also.
Performed a new install, exactly like previous. Now I can access my site, login, etc. but I'm still wondering why it works now.

Just before that I discovered some information concerning smarty and php safe mode, but now that everything seems to be working OK I didn't follow this instruction:
http://smarty.incutio.com/?page=SmartyFrequentlyAskedQuestions#basics-1
Q: How do you use Smarty with an ISP running PHP 4.2.1 with safe_mode on ? (rgittens)
A: Set $use_sub_dirs to false in Smarty.class.php.

Xoops sets $use_sub_dirs to false per default