phpBB3 Installation - Blank Page

[ipawnnoobs]

First of all I just want to congratulate the founders of x10hosting.com for this wonderful service. That being said here is my query.

I have FTPed the phpBB3 files over to the server and that has worked great but here is the problem.
I navigate to the installer for phpBB3 in this case being: http://thehideout.x10hosting.com/forums/install/index.php and I recieve a blank page. I have searched the forum for a previous answer and the only think I could come up is wait until your account gets upgraded to v2 PHP.
I have sent a request and it has been updated. I also received an e-mail saying:

[FONT=&quot]This email is being sent to let you know that your hosting account's version of PHP has been updated to version 2 successfully.[/FONT]

I have also re uploaded the files to make sure they aren't corrupt and have CHMODed the following directories to 777:
forums/files
forums/store
forums/images/avatars/upload

I am not a beginner at installing phpBB but for some reason the x10 servers hate me.

Thanks to whoever can shed some light into this matter. Have a great day.

Any relevant info that might help:
cPanel Username: freak020
Subdomain: thehideout.x10hosting

P.S. The ads for advanced hosting package will be added as soon as I can get into the ACP for phpBB to edit the skins.
Edit:
Just an update which might help to resolve this. In my error log I see many of these:

ALERT - function within blacklist called: set_time_limit() (attacker 'XX.XX.XXX.XX', file '/home/freak020/public_html/forums/install/index.php', line 123)
[Fri Nov  2 20:58:16 2007] [error] [client 76.30.240.17] File does not exist: /home/freak020/public_html/404.shtml
[Fri Nov  2 20:58:16 2007] [error] [client 76.30.240.17] File does not exist: /home/freak020/public_html/robots.txt

The IP address has been removed for my privacy but you get the point. Is set_time_limit() a function which is blocked by v1 PHP? If it is then it means that my account has not been upgraded and I should wait (even though I received an e-mail which said the upgrade is complete).

Secondly, do I need to have a robots.txt? From my understanding that only helps search engine bots. I don't believe the robots.txt has anything to do with my problem, but I put it up there just in case. I will wait until tomorrow to see how this gets sorted out.

Have a good night everyone!

 

[Fedlerner]

How long your account was upgrade to PHP v2? It usually takes about 4 hours for the PHP version to update, and changes to take effect.
Also, CHMOD all the folders you've with 777 to 755, as 777 permissions have been disabled due to a huge security hole.

 

[ipawnnoobs]

The reason they were CHMODed to 777 is because that is how they should be so when phpBB makes a backup it can successfully write to the folder. Also when users upload an avatar to use on the forum phpBB needs to upload it. I will CHMOD them back to 755 cause I won't be using those features, but anyways, everything works now. Thanks.

 

[Christopher]

It sounds like you will be disabling the avatar upload function, but just to remind you, having that on is a violation of the terms of service.