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Drupal 7 install failure OSX mavericks MAMP

I've been getting the dreaded WSOD on just the basic install of Drupal 7.26 using MAMP 2.2

I looked at Fatal error: Call to undefined function field_attach_load() in includes/entity.inc on line 321 during install

And also looked at Blank pages or "white screen of death" (WSOD)

Solution

  • I wasted several hours trying to find the problem. It seems to be related to an issue with PHP 5.5.3 which is the default on MAMP 2.2. I went into MAMP preferences, and changed the PHP tab to use PHP 5.2.17. I then edited /Applications/MAMP/bin/php/php5.2.17/conf/php.ini to add the settings for max_execution_time = 300 and memory_limit = 256M

    I went back to MAMP and restarted the servers. Used a fresh copy of drupal-7.26 and the install finally worked (after adding a fresh new db and user in phpMyAdmin on http://'localhost':8888/MAMP/)

    I still have no idea why PHP 5.5.3 fails miserably