Hello everybody,

my homepage with SilverStripe was working like a charm for years until now. The startpage shows above failure message and i cannot login on mysite/admin.
Do you have any suggestions how to solve this? Btw i am no web developer, just managed to install this CMS using the manual.

I've seen this happen if there is an invalid yaml file somewhere: for instance one that has no config items, but does have some content, maybe a name.

SilverStripe doesn't take empty yml files into account, but if there is some content present it tries to read it as an array to add it to the manifest (the config cache). So you get that empty array warning.

Or, if this is an older version of SilverStripe (2.4) that doesn't use yml, or it isn't a yml issue, then maybe your provider recently upgraded you PHP version?

Thanks for your quick reply. I am using SS 3.0.5 but yes, my provider updated my page from PHP 5.4 to PHP 5.6. could this be the reason for my error? I did not change any file during the last six month, only using the SS interface for new poste. While logged into my provider control panel, i can switch to PHP 5.4 again while paying an extra fee or to PHP 7, but that version is not supported by SS yet. Would it help to update my SS version? It would be great to login to my site soon. ;-)

Unfortunate that they would charge you to revert to an older version of PHP, because that would absolutely be the first thing I would try. I seem to recall php 5.6 being somewhat more strict regarding arrays...

I haven't seen this error in clean installs of SilverStripe. Are you using any other modules or themes or did you use any custom code? Or is it just a basic SilverStripe install?