After UBB5.47e to vB 2.01. migration, Mac IE users having problems..

[f150guy]

From what they are saying, when they try to open the forum main page, all they see is the PHP code. I am guessing this is some type of MIME setting on their browser, but since I have not used a Mac since my SE in college, can anyone help?

[Philipp]

There is something wrong with the server. IE 6.0 try to download index.php

[f150guy]

Any suggestion on what the server setting would be?

Any suggestions? I am running Apache 1.3.x on RedHat Linux 6.x, PHP 4.06...

[Mike Sullivan]

Do they see the actual *PHP* code, or the HTML code it generates? Because if they see the PHP code, there's gotta be some strange incompatibility with your server as it should be parsed server side.

Also, I went to your forums (was able to guess the vB url ) and used my little test script on it, I got these headers:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2001 00:38:54 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.20 (Unix) PHP/4.0.6 mod_ssl/2.8.4 OpenSSL/0.9.6a
X-Powered-By: PHP/4.0.6
Set-Cookie: sessionhash=63772f25233af4ecc44ecd0bc53ec67e; path=/
Set-Cookie: bblastvisit=994034334; expires=Tue, 02-Jul-02 00:38:54 GMT; path=/
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 9533
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

And then a bunch of garbage that is the gzip'ed content. Those headers look ok (sending the text/html) one, so I'm curious about the gzip -- can you turn of gzipping in your control panel (assuming that's what you're using) and see if that does anything?

[f150guy]

Ed,

The URL is fairly intuitive, eh?

I turned off GZIP compression, which, yes, I was using.

From what my users describe, it does sound like they are seeing the PHP code. In some instances, a dialog pops up and asks them what app they want to use to open the file...it seems consistent with IE on the Mac.

Additionally, WebTV users are also complaining, but I have not delved into the details on that yet...

Steve

[Mike Sullivan]

I should write a script that goes to /forum or /forums of a domain/site and see how many actually exist

Anyway, I need you to confirm whether they're seeing the PHP code or the HTML code -- it's quite possible the browser wants to save it as index.php, but it's actually the HTML code.

Anyone know how I can check (preferably client side) what headers are being sent and received by the browser?

[f150guy]

I'm trying to get one of my more technical Mac/IE users to answer this question...or at least get a screen-cap for me...

Steve

[f150guy]

Ed,

I think that turning off GZIP compression silenced most of the complainers. Thanks!!!

Now, what is the best way to get the today's active topics list to sort by forum? I assume that I have to edit search.php, but which query do I need to add an order by clause to?

The upgrade/migration has generated an extremely positive response so far. It's slow being Sunday, but the forums peaked at 134 users, the server load never topped 0.93...

Steve

[Mike Sullivan]

Actually, in all searches you can just tack onto the URL what you want to order by:
[...]sortby=lastpost&sortorder=descending

Sort by forum would be:
[...]sortby=forum&sortorder=descending
or
[...]sortby=forum&sortorder=ascending

You wanna change line 585 to include those options then.