Doug Crompton on 17 Sep 2010 10:31:33 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Apache2/PHP not displaying correctly


Eric,

  Thanks. I had though that might be the problem also but like you I don't
know what to do to fix it.

Just to confirm...  you are also seeing the binary stuff when you look at
this URL ???

http://chs-68.org/blog/

Doug

On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Eric at Lucii.org wrote:

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> Doug:
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> I have a theory as to what the problem is but not why it's happening.
>
> You're seeing a gzip version of the page that is not being un-gziped.
>
> It is likely
> EITHER
>  - gzip compression without a proper header
> OR
>  - something on your server side is forcing a double gzip compression which the
> browser only un-gzips once.
>
> To test my theory, load the page of binary "junk" and then save it as a file
> like "index.html.gz"  Then, from the command line you gunzip it.  If the
> resulting file is the html of the page you are expecting then it's confirmed.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> Eric
>
> On 09/17/2010 06:19 AM, Doug Crompton wrote:
> > The prior message was my attempt to enter into my reply an example of the
> > garbage screen characters that are generated. If you can goto -
> >
> > http://chs-68.org/blog/
> >
> > and see what you get there. The characters are displayed look like what
> > you would get if you displayed a binary file in an ascii editor. I have
> > restarted apache numerous times. I have not rebooted the system. The logs
> > have no unusual entries.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 17 Sep 2010, Ezra Wolfe wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, Sep 16, 2010 at 8:57 PM, Doug Crompton <doug@crompton.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> All of the sudden my served PHP pages are not displaying correctly. Using
> >>> Apache2 and PHP5. This was all working and word press files were
> >>> displaying fine. The only thing I have done that I know of is a Python
> >>> upgrade.
> >>>
> >>> All I get is a screen full of random characters when trying to view PHP
> >>> files. Tried firefox and explorer browsers.
> >>>
> >>> Any ideas of what to check for?
> >>>
> >>>
> >> Have you tried restarting apache?
> >>
> >> To help with troubleshooting it would be good to post some specifics: Can
> >> you check the error logs and post the output somewhere? Both
> >> /var/log/apache2 and/or /var/log/syslog. If you don't have apache logging
> >> turned on you can turn in on by editing /etc/apache2/httpd.conf or
> >> apache2.conf depending on your distro. Look for the logging directive and
> >> follow the directions to turn it on. Restart apache when you are done.
> >>
> >> Can you be specific about random characters?
> >>
> >
> >
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