Hi,

I am following the tutorial on creating a new page type. I did the steps described in the tutorial:
I created a new file HomePage.php in ROOT/mysite/code and copied this code into it:

<?php

class HomePage extends Page {
}
class HomePage_Controller extends Page_Controller {
}
?>

Then I rebuilt the database by using http://myweb.com/dev/build (all the links are just to illustrate the paths, they are not real)

When I access the site, it works fine, however, when I go to the admin area, the administration does not load. It seems that the page is frozen - I am on the homepage, then I add "/admin" (or "/admin/pages") to go to the administration, the url is changed to the "/admin/pages", but I still see the homepage and nothing happens and after that I can't access any link on the web (seems to be frozen). And after a while I get an error from the browser - something like the page has broken down...

There are no errors displayed on the site or in the log...

When I delete that HomePage.php file from the server,rebuild the DB via http://myweb.com/dev/build, It works fine again, but naturally without a new page type.

I am new to Silverstripe, so I have no idea how to sort it out, I haven't found anything on the internet on this issue.

Could you please help?

Thanks

Anna

Make sure your site is in 'devmode' and your PHP is configured with display_errors on so you can see the error message. http://doc.silverstripe.org/framework/en/topics/debugging#dev-mode

Hi,
I recently started and had the same issue. The problem I found is putting the code snippet at the top of the file rather than the bottom. The tutorial makes it seem that way as it displays the <?php tag right above it. Atleast doing this fixed it for me.

Hello Willr: Which config file should you do that in? I noticed one in the mysite and also the framework directories.

Edit: Actually I did it wrong the second time around, pasting the code to the bottom of pages.php rather than making a new homepage.php. It seems to work though.

Edit Edit: On further tinkering, I assume it's because you closed the php tag at the end?