[Mediawiki-l] Can't create new pages

[Gustaf Josefsson]

On 3 feb 2011, at 00.50, Platonides wrote:

> Ashar Voultoiz wrote:
>> On 02/02/11 17:11, Gustaf Josefsson wrote:
>>> Hello!
>>> 
>>> I just installed mediawiki on a new site. I've used it on other servers before and never encountered this problem.
>>> For some reason, i get "Error 330 (net::ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED): Unknown error.", when i try to enter a new url (/index.php?title=asd). This seem to be similar to the problem described here:
>>> http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Help_talk:Starting_a_new_page#Page_Not_Found_error
>>> 
>>> I cannot for the life of me figured out what the problem is. I reinstalled from scratch, without any customizations, so this has to be a server config problem. It's not my server, but my guess it that it probably something I can fix by changing some php option in my .htaccess.
>>> 
>>> Anyone have a good idea?
>>> 
>>> My site is at: http://www.incrediblemusicmachine.se/
>> 
>> For some reason, the edit link returns pure HTML but mark it as encoded 
>> with gzip. This confuse the browser which is expecting gzipped content. 
>> I reproduce it in both Safari and Firefox. IE might be able to guess it.
>> 
>> $ curl -I -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' 
>> 'http://www.incrediblemusicmachine.se/index.php?title=FOOBAR'
>> HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
>> Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2011 22:32:55 GMT
>> Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) mod_gzip/1.3.26.1a mod_fastcgi/FSDATA-1.1 
>> mod_jk/1.1.0 Embperl/2.0b8 mod_perl/1.29 PHP/4.4.3 mod_ssl/2.8.28 
>> OpenSSL/0.9.8b
>> X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.14
>> Content-language: en
>> Vary: Accept-Encoding,Cookie
>> Expires: Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT
>> Cache-Control: private, must-revalidate, max-age=0
>> Content-Encoding: gzip
>> X-Powered-By: PHP/4.4.3
>> Content-Type: text/html
>> 
>> I have noticed a strange character at the top of the output:
>> 
>> curl -H 'Accept-Encoding: gzip' 
>> 'http://www.incrediblemusicmachine.se/index.php?title=FOOBAR' | hexdump -C
>> 00000000  0a 3c 21 44 4f 43 54 59  50 45 20 68 74 6d |.<!DOCTYPE htm|
>>           ^^^^^
>> 
>> Not really helpful, but at least it gives the cause.
> 
> However, the Main Page is delivered compressed without errors.
> Check the files for a that newline before the <?php Have you tried to
> manual edit any of them?
> Although I find strange that a new line breaks the gziping process but
> doesn't also fail the header() call.
> 
> 
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It does seem strange that no-one else has this problem.
This is an account on one of sweden's largest hosting provider, so I can't imagine there being something special with their setup.

Can anyone else reproduce this on a fresh install of the latest version (mediawiki-1.16.2)?

/ g

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