Since I changed operating system to Windows server 2003 and began using IIS6 instead of apache I've not been able to switch on 'debug' without getting a blank page nor can I succesfully switch themes.

When turning on debug I get a split second to read this message "failed open File". - Actually I just noticed that I get this message every time I try to change anything in the Admin section.

As an experiment I tried a fresh installation of xoops, I got a blank page at the end.

I have granted permissions on the templates_c folder etc.

Can anyone help resolve this resolve this issue? By the way I have read the article in XOOPS wiki about blank pages.

Sorted! The inability to turn on debug was due to zlib compression being turned on in php.ini

Changing themes was a permissions issue.

Standard php download on W2K3 Server it will fail, I think this has something to do with user permissions having to be set at build time.

The following is a download link to the only php package I could get to work on W2K3 Server.

http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/universal-auth/install-php4.exe?downloadh