Re: [site is acting strange] - blank pages, download index.php, or works fine

On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 13:38 -0400, Adam Richardson wrote: > On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Bill Guion <bguion@comcast.net> wrote: > > > At 6:45 PM -0600 7/29/10, Tristan wrote: > > > > Yeah like i said site works 95% of the time when navigating. PHP5.2, Mysql > >> 5. The site is completely dynamic so it wouldn't work at all if that was > >> the > >> case of it not being installed right. > >> > >> so the other 5% of the time is blank pages and download index.php files. > >> In > >> Firefox when you get a blank page, if you click view source it will show > >> all > >> the code that should be there but, I can't tell if it's requesting the > >> page > >> again when you do that. It never fails 2 times in a row. A refresh will > >> always fix it. When you look in firebug there is no html so it leads me to > >> believe FF may be doing just that...going for a second request instead of > >> viewing currently opened source? In IE8 I would get something like > >> > >> diagnose problem button > >> > >> more information drop down with > >> > >> this problem can be caused by a variety of issues..this is a completely > >> typical M$ error with no valid help > >> > >> > >> > >> chrome same thing with > >> > >> web page cannot be displayed > >> > >> more information etc... > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:36 PM, David McGlone <david@dmcentral.net> > >> wrote: > >> > >> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 18:11 -0600, Tristan wrote: > >>> > I have the strangest issue with my host. They can't figure it out and > >>> I'm > >>> > completely perplexed. We have other sites running on the server just > >>> fine. > >>> > However, this new site is acting very weird. Sometimes we get blank > >>> pages, > >>> > sometimes we get a blank page and then a dialog pops up asking if we > >>> want > >>> to > >>> > download index.php, and then sometimes the site is working fine. Any > >>> ideas > >>> > on this? > >>> > > >>> > I'm at ends. Appreciate any advice. For authentication we are using > >>> mysql > >>> > auth module in apache/linux and proxy pass. We removed proxy pass to > >>> see > >>> if > >>> > that was it but, it wasn't. its a members.domain.com subdomain if > >>> that > >>> > helps. > >>> > >>> Do you have php-mysql installed? > >>> > >>> > >>> -- > >>> Blessings, > >>> David M. > >>> > >>> > >>> > > Does the page validate at > > http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/? > > > > -----===== Bill =====----- > > -- > > > > Don't find fault. Find a remedy. - Henry Ford > > > > > > > > -- > > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php > > > > > Tristan, > > The good news is that you're not crazy. I've had this exact issue (at least > in terms of symptoms) when working with one of my client's websites. > > The bad news is that this was long ago, I was using a shared host, and I'm > not the one who cause or, more importantly, fixed the problem. That said, > I've strained my memory to try and recall what might have been said in the > follow-up from the host, and it seems like there was a mime-type handling > issue (again, I could be completely wrong, this is just a faint memory.) > > Another faint memory: are you able to see a difference in behavior when you > view an index file with the file included in the url ( > http://yoursite.com/index.php) as opposed to when you view the > page without > it in the url (http://yoursite.com)? > > Sorry, I wish I still had my email exchange with the company to see what > information they provided after the fix :( > > Adam > Actually, you just saying that made me think of a similar problem I had once with IIS serving up files. It was XML files rather than PHP, but the Mime issue does ring a bell! Is the server you're using IIS Tristan? Thanks, Ash http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk