Apache fails to fetch index.* properly

[vla]

Hello,

I have started having a problem with index.* files on 3 accounts.
After visiting them with IE 6 (Win XP Pro SP2) the index page does not fetch from the acc dir but instead it comes like a file with Unknown Content Type with content like

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One of the accounts has a parked domain and the problem exist only on the parked domain.

Checking this with Firefox, Opera doen not bring any troubles.

group, ownership, file and dir permissions are correct.

Anyone experienced that before ?

[Promethyl]

I had this problem when I upgraded to php 4.3.10 (or newest).

I just recompiled making small changes to config until it didn't happen.

[vla]

I had this problem when I upgraded to php 4.3.10 (or newest).

I just recompiled making small changes to config until it didn't happen.

I have this on one box with php 4.3.10

Can u place the config you are using ?

[Promethyl]

Yeah, go easy on me, this is from memory:


Apache 2 Support (Experimental & Very Broken, Not for Production Use)
x Expires Module
x Raise FD_SETSIZE to 16384 (System Wide)
x Prevent Users from reading other webroots
Frontpage Module
Gzip Module (experimental) (Version 1.3.26.1a)
x Raise HARD_SERVER_LIMIT
Perl Module (not required to run .cgi scripts/not compatible with php) (Version 1.29)
Php Module (Version 4.3.3)

x Version 4.3.10
Version 4.3.8
Version 4.3.9
Version 5.0.2 (TESTING)
Version 5.0.3 (TESTING)
x Bc Math
x Calendar Support
Curl (Version 7.12.0)
Curl SSL Support (Version 2.8.22)
Dom XSLT
Exif
Flash
x FTP
x GD (Version 2.0.15)
GetText
Imap Module
Java (must already be installed, or install will fail)
Mb String
Mcrypt (Version 2.5.7)
Mhash (Version 0.8.18)
Ming Support (Version 0.3beta1)
x Magic Quotes
x Mysql Module
Openssl Support
Discard Path
PDFlib (requires license for commerical use; see www.pdflib.com/pdffiles/PDFlib-Lite-license.pdf)
x Pear
Postgresql (will break 7.2.x or earlier, please make sure you have 7.3.x or later installed)
Pspell Module
Sablot XSLT [may cause problems with chili!asp]
SafeMode
x Sockets
Use System Mysql
Track Vars
Freetype Support
x Versioning
WDDX
XML RPC
Zip
x Zlib

PHP suEXEC Support
x Report Build Errors to cPanel
Reset Apache Config to Default (last resort)
x Rewrite Module
x SSL Module (Version 2.8.22)
x suEXEC Module

This is a pretty common configure, I would imagine. I would also like to I add I use EAccelerator, but I commented it out before the compile, and phpzise/configure/make/make installed it and then readded it when I was done.

[brentp]

I use:

Apache 2 Support (Experimental & Very Broken, Not for Production Use)
x Expires Module
x Raise FD_SETSIZE to 16384 (System Wide)
x Prevent Users from reading other webroots
Frontpage Module
Gzip Module (experimental) (Version 1.3.26.1a)
x Raise HARD_SERVER_LIMIT
Perl Module (not required to run .cgi scripts/not compatible with php) (Version 1.29)
Php Module (Version 4.3.3)

x Version 4.3.10
Version 4.3.8
Version 4.3.9
Version 5.0.2 (TESTING)
Version 5.0.3 (TESTING)
x Bc Math
x Calendar Support
x Curl (Version 7.12.0)
x Curl SSL Support (Version 2.8.22)
Dom XSLT
Exif
Flash
x FTP
x GD (Version 2.0.15)
GetText
Imap Module
Java (must already be installed, or install will fail)
x Mb String
Mcrypt (Version 2.5.7)
Mhash (Version 0.8.18)
Ming Support (Version 0.3beta1)
x Magic Quotes
x Mysql Module
x Openssl Support
Discard Path
PDFlib (requires license for commerical use; see www.pdflib.com/pdffiles/PDFlib-Lite-license.pdf)
x Pear
x Postgresql (will break 7.2.x or earlier, please make sure you have 7.3.x or later installed)
Pspell Module
Sablot XSLT [may cause problems with chili!asp]
SafeMode
x Sockets
Use System Mysql
Track Vars
Freetype Support
x Versioning
WDDX
x XML RPC
Zip
x Zlib

PHP suEXEC Support
x Report Build Errors to cPanel
Reset Apache Config to Default (last resort)
x Rewrite Module
x SSL Module (Version 2.8.22)
x suEXEC Module

and it has never failed me

Regards,
Brent

[Promethyl]

I heard somewhere people speaking of this problem, and they said it had to do with the system software supporting PHP... if it was newer, you wouldn't have a problem.

I think this is a good reason to rebuild the kernel perhaps.

Have you done so? Is that the reason yours goes well?

[vla]

I thought it has to deal with the client OS / Browser.

I've been monitoring these 3 domains and noticed the weird page content appear / disappear from time to time. I still can not figure out how is this happening.

My observasions show that the problem exists with WinXP SP2 And Win2k3 Latest SP and IE.


I have the latest kernel for the OS I am running.

[sureshot]

not sure if our problems are related, but ever since updating [or trying to i should say] to php 4.3.10 from 4.3.9 i have had on and off problems with bringing up websites on our test server.
first i noticed that if you don't have the absolute newest version of zend installed, the previous version hoses php because it's not compatible with 4.3.10
i have been trying to slowly recompile apache/php with our needed modules one by one just to try to find out what exactly is breaking things. sometimes the only way to un-hose apache/php is to copy an old httpd.conf.failsafe to httpd.conf and then rerun /scripts/easy apache with one of the basic options.

now, this is the most recent problem i'm having... when i load a site in firefox without explicitly mentioning the index file [www.example.com/] i get a save file box [see attachment] when i load the exact same website with the index [www.example.com/index.php] it works fine.
either way works fine in IE, and this just started happening since upgrading to php 4.3.10

any ideas? i'll keep hammering at this to try and find a solution, but if anybody thinks of anything, please let me know.

thanks.
-brien.