PHP / Apache Issue

[John Seth]

I seen something similar happen on RH 7.3 and RH 9.0 boxes that were web
servers.  I had tried installing a new version of PHP and at random times,
pages would just display raw html/php code instead of actually displaying
the pages.  99 times out of a 100 it wouldn't... but that 1 out of a 100
always seemed to happen when my boss was viewing the website, and not just
at their own computer.

Do you have a custom compiled version of PHP perhaps and is it doing it
for other PHP scripts, or just that one pdf script?


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On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Justin Bennett wrote:

> Its mozilla 1.7.1 and reader 6.0. I have two copies of this program one
> on a application server here (buffalo), and one in europe (pretty much
> same config on both machines). It's a sales report the runs against an
> oracle database. The same program works fine on one application server,
> but on the european server was giving me this greif, it was doing if for
> more than a PDF too, It was doing it for regular pages. That's why I
> pretty much ruled out anything on the client end, I eventually
> regenerated  httpd.conf and restarted apache and it seems to work fine
> now.
>
> Thanks for the reply!
>
> Justin
>
>
>
> Justin Bennett
> Network Administrator
> Dynabrade, Inc.
> 8989 Sheridan Dr.
> Clarence, NY 14031
>
>
>
>
> Cliff Meyers wrote:
>
> >Justin,
> >
> >
> >This likely has more to do with the browser you're running than anything
> >server-side.  What operating system / web browser / version of Adobe
> >Reader are you using?  You could also try changing the content-disposition
> >to "attachment" instead of "inline"; the former should cause the PDF
> >to be opened by Acrobat Reader itself, whereas the latter will open in
> >the browser via the plugin.  I know Acrobat Reader 5.0 for Windows had
> >some strange bugs in it.
> >
> >
> >-Cliff
> >
> >
> >
> >On Tue, 31 Aug 2004 06:58:24 -0700 Justin Bennett <Justin.Bennett at dynabrade.com>
> >wrote:
> >
> >
> >>I have redhat 2.1ES machine running Apache and PHP. I have a PHP
> >>script
> >>that generates a PDF. Every third or fourth time I run the script
> >>I
> >>don't get the PDF instead I get the headers and asci equiv of the
> >>PDF in
> >>my browser. I hit reload and the PDF comes up fine. Any idea why
> >>this
> >>might happen, possibly config error?
> >>
> >>
> >>HTTP/1.1 200 OK
> >>Date: Tue, 31 Aug 2004 14:19:30 GMT
> >>Server: Apache/1.3.27 (Unix)  (Red-Hat/Linux) mod_ssl/2.8.12 OpenSSL/0.9.6b
> >>DAV/1.0.3 PHP/4.3.4 mod_perl/1.26
> >>X-Powered-By: PHP/4.3.4
> >>Content-Length: 10053
> >>Content-disposition: inline; filename=doc.pdf
> >>Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
> >>Connection: Keep-Alive
> >>Content-Type: application/pdf
> >>
> >>%PDF-1.3
> >>3 0 obj
> >><</Type /Page
> >><SNIP>
> >>
> >>--
> >>Justin Bennett
> >>Network Administrator
> >>Dynabrade, Inc.
> >>8989 Sheridan Dr.
> >>Clarence, NY 14031
> >>
> >>
>
>