Mozilla

[Zagreus]

Re: the none rendering of the "offical" site in Mozilla. It's probably because the Content-Type being sent back by the http server to the client looks like:

 

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1

 

It really should be:

 

Content-Type: text/html

 

Mozilla is being told it's a plain text document and so just print it to screen, whilst IE seems to be ignoring it and rendering it as HTML.

 

Zag

 

[JKiF]

eh?

[Laz]

Read this if you are interested

[Webbo MFI]

thanks for the info - will update all 150 pages tomorrow!

[Webbo MFI]

actually could you check the main page now to see if it runs in Mozilla??

 

 

cheers

[Webbo MFI]

OK just downloaded Mozilla and found out that it doesn't like .shtml pages.

 

Tough untill the new site is launched in May

[Rob_the_Saint]

Webbo, I think the problem is at the webserver end. I'll PM Ian_W and see if he can shed any light on it.

[Zagreus]

It's not really a "problem" with Mozilla. Mozilla is just doing what the server is telling it to do. If you look at the http headers (I'm using a unix util called dog) you'll see that the server is telling the client that the data is text/plain. The headers also reveal that the web server is Apache. The server needs to be configured, so when it server shtml pages, it sends: Content-Type: text/html in the http headers. Looking at one of the Apache server I look after this can be done in one of two ways:

 

1. change the default type value in httpd.conf to html: e.g.

 

DefaultType text/html

 

2. (this is how my Apache is configured). Add shtml to the following lines in the httpd.conf file:

 

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php index.php4 index.php3 index.phtml index.cgi

AddType text/html .shtml

AddHandler server-parsed .shtml

 

I got the above three lines bt just grep-ing for shtml. I think the AddType is the most important.

 

After the httpd.conf file as been edited the web server will need to be restarted.

 

Zag

 

 

 

[Rob_the_Saint]

Thanks

 

I've sent a PM to the 'power that does' as we don't have the authority to configure the server ourselves.

[Ian_W]

Would you like to check it now.....

[EFM The Firm, The Voice]

Oi! I think Enfield have a tech forum, because there is no football to talk about over there, take this over there <img src="/images/graemlins/mad.gif" alt="" />

[Rob_the_Saint]

Did someone speak?

 

Ian, i can't check it at work, I will try it later on this evening if I get a minute or two.

 

Cheers

[Laz]

Quote:

Zagreus said:
(I'm using a unix util called dog)

Definately one for the Enfield forum.
Get yourself a PC with Windows and IE.

[Zagreus]

Yep, it's working under Mozilla 1.4 on Win2K. Top Dog. Don't have to use that crappy IE anymore.

 

Zag

[Laz]

Perhaps you should look for a Linux site.

As has been suggested, try looking at the Enfield forums.

[Zagreus]

I don't have any IT problems at my end. It was an issue with the web server that hosts the Offical St Albans web site. I alerted the webmaster to the problem and he's now fixed it. The above posts documents it all. Everything is cool here.

 

Zag

[JKiF]

phew...

i was getting worried there