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I do have a weird issue with my Joomla 3.6 page. All works fine except the search. It works with several words but unfortunately it stops working with a total white blank page (even no HTML-markup).

I tryed debugging like here with no solution. There is no entry in my error.log. My access.log shows me 

[27/Jul/2016:15:21:28 +0200] "GET /suche?searchword=edi&searchphrase=all&limit=20 HTTP/1.1" 200 430 "/suche?searchword=vendoc&ordering=newest&searchphrase=all&limit=20" "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/51.0.2704.103 Safari/537.36"

Nothing special so far. It only appears to happen to certain words (no offensive words).

EDIT:

Under "plugins" there is just the "content" and "contact" enabled. If I disable "content" then everything works just fine. Under "components" -> "search" search statistic is logged with state enabled.

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  • White screen means there is a PHP error but you have error reporting turned off. In your Global Configuration, set error reporting to development, then report back the error you get when trying again
    – Lodder
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 14:05
  • @Lodder no error is reported and it is just on random words
    – webprogrammer
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 14:32
  • Are you using search or smart search? If smart search, do you have gather statistics enabled? Are you using any search filters?
    – YellowWebMonkey
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 16:19
  • @YellowWebMonkey where can I find out which one is used? Under components "statistic" is enabled everything else disabled. Under plugins there is just "content" and "contacts" enabled. If I disable "content" everything works just fine. So the issue has to be related under "content"
    – webprogrammer
    Commented Jul 28, 2016 at 6:14
  • From your edit, you are using regular Search. Any change when disabling statistics? Since your error_log is empty, you might want to check that your php.ini is set to write to it.
    – YellowWebMonkey
    Commented Jul 28, 2016 at 13:45

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Can you try setting up an alternate page using Components->Smart Search? This might help narrow down whether it is a code problem or server/resource problem.

If it is a code problem, check your template's override folder (/templates/TEMPLATE_NAME/html/com_search/) to see if there is a template override causing the problem.

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Most likely this is caused by your script timing out on certain words, or your memory limit being exceeded on certain words (because they are in so many entries). I suggest you increase the PHP memory limit in your php.ini and see if that solves the problem. If it doesn't, then try increasing your PHP timeout in your php.ini.

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  • It doesn't seem to be a timeout. My memory limit is at 128MB and timeout on 60s.
    – webprogrammer
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 14:41
  • Double your memory limit to 256MB and check if that solves the problem.
    – itoctopus
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 14:41
  • no changes happening - even when increasing to 512MB
    – webprogrammer
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 14:51
  • Are you sure that your changes are taking effect? Also, are you on a VPS or on a shared host?
    – itoctopus
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 14:54
  • It's my machine and changes take affect - yes. I can override via .htaccess. I inserted the memory limit on first line then i made an echo on phpinfo - so yes it tells me 256MB
    – webprogrammer
    Commented Jul 27, 2016 at 14:58
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This solved the Joomla White screen of death for me:

in: plugins/content/phocagalleryslideshow/phocagalleryslideshow.php add the line:

if(!defined('DS')) define('DS', DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR);

just before:

if (! class_exists('PhocaGalleryLoader')) {
    require_once( JPATH_ADMINISTRATOR.DS.'components'.DS.'com_phocagallery'.DS.'libraries'.DS.'loader.php');

I got a hint that this module was causing the problems by setting in configuration.php the error reporting to maximum.

public $error_reporting = 'maximum';
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