Hi Everyone,

For some reason all my front-end articles (ie. items) in K2 are throwing a blank white page. I can see a list of articles (as well as intro text) when the category is selected. But when title is clicked, it throws a blank page. I can see all the items in the back-end with no issue. Any ideas ?

Here's what I did so far:

- All permissions are set properly: dir 755, files 644
- Disabled SEF URLs - did not help
- Tested with different template - did not help (so it's not template issue)
- Set Error Reporting: (see below)

Notice: Undefined property: stdClass::$numOfComments in /home/public_html/components/com_k2/views/item/view.html.php on line 264
Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_internal_encoding() in /home/public_html/components/com_k2/helpers/route.php on line 93


NOTE: I have not installed any new plugins, etc or done any upgrades. This problem appeared after my webhost enabled mod_ruid2 to resolve some user/process/cPanel permission issues on the server.

I do see a warning under extensions that says: "The PHP temporary folder is not set". But I can still upload, delete, update components just fine.

Im using Joomla 3.4.8, K2 2.6.9 - Should I reinstall K2?

Ok, finally figured it out. The installation of mod_ruid2 to solve our issue problems with the server was somehow conflicting with PHP.

I checked the error_log and it turned out I had a "fatal error":

PHP Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_internal_encoding() in /home/public_html/components/com_k2/helpers/route.php

Solution - install php-mbstring and not everything works.

Indeed, the multibytes PHP modules is essential for K2 to function properly.