mysterious error (Apache2?)

[Anonymous]

Hi,

I have installed phpwiki 1.3.4 on my linux with
Apache 2.0.44
PHP 4.3.1
MySQL 3.23.41

I can install the database and initialize ist. But when I call the index.php in my browser I get a lot of unreadable hex characters.
When I start the php standalone the result is an correct HTML-page.
I think the problem is the LANG or CHARATER setting, but I have no idea what I can do.
Is there an problem with Apache 2?

Thanks for any help
Steffen

[Russell McOrmond]

I have seen the same problem.  If I try to access the same URL with 'wget' or 'lynx' I see the page without a problem, but with Mozilla I see garbage.

I came to the forum today to try to see if anyone else had seen this problem, and found a solution.

[Russell McOrmond]

Seems the problem relates to the flush() function.  If you go into display.php and comment out the flush() calls then things look OK.

I suspect eithor PHP or Apache has an uninitialized variable somewhere.

[NemoN]

same problem here, i comment out flush(), but no change. i analyzed the raw stream:

this is the gziped index.php, the i unzip this file, it looks fine :/

this must be a problem of phpwiki & apache2, beause others sites with active mod_gzip etc looks fine.

[Anonymous]

I think this is the same problem I had. If so, you need to edit /lib/display.php

There are two lines in the code which say:

header("Content-Type: text/html; charset=" . CHARSET);

Try adding inserting this line before both of those:

header("Content-Encoding: gzip");

-PH

[Paul Handly]

Another fix is to fiddle with the "COMPRESS_OUTPUT" option - define it to 'false' in index.php and that should fix the problem without monkeying with display.php