Magento How to debug blank white screen

Question

I have an error in my Magento backend that results in a blank screen (WSOD). I have set errors to on in admin but there is nothing being created in var/logs/. (I have checke

Answer 1

I have also experienced the same problem when uploading the magento project to my webserver, In my case the zip file is corrupted during the upload process and many of my php files are also damaged. I have uploaded via ftp. I have found the solution for this. If you are making the zip file from linux machine, try to use command line tool (For example: ie;

zip -r my_archive.zip /path/of/files/to/compress/ )

and do upload to your web server from windows filezilla client.