title: Drupal showing blank page after migrating to a local server
body: <p>Firstly some background,..</p>
  
  <p>IVe started a new job as PHP developer with a company that hosts 2 Drupal (6.x) sites.</p>
  
  <p>While I have years of experience in PHP, Drupal ( and indeed off the shelf content management systems in general ) is a new one on me. Still, there is loads of documentation and its not rocket science, so no problems there. </p>
  
  <p>The server environment is IIS (live server 7.0, locally 7.5) IIS is a totally new beast to me too, so it adds to teh learning curve.</p>
  
  <p>I have successfully gotten a clean install of Drupal (7.x) to run locally, so I know the server is up and running correctly</p>
  
  <p>The problem happens when I try to pull down the live site. I have replicated the database locally, and I know that it is connecting, however when I try to run the local site I get a blank page with the following source c ode: </p>
  
  <pre><code> &lt;!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd"&gt;
  &lt;html lang="en"&gt;
    &lt;head&gt;
      &lt;?include '_inc_head_common.tpl.php';?&gt;
    &lt;/head&gt;
  
    &lt;body id="body"&gt;
  
        &lt;?include '_inc_header.tpl.php';?&gt;
        &lt;?include '_inc_content_3col.tpl.php';?&gt;
        &lt;?include '_inc_footer.tpl.php';?&gt;
    &lt;/body&gt;
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>So it seems that it is getting to a point and no further.. </p>
  
  <p>has anyone encountered this before or could someone point me in the direction that I should be looking at?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>
  
  <p>Kevin</p>