Brion Vibber wrote:
On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:12 AM,
Norman<analogalley(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Dear Group. Last night, I spoke with my
webhosting technical support
(
iPower.com) and was told that their servers are running php5.2.17,
and they have no plans to upgrade to php5.2.9, which is what mediawiki
requires.
5.2.17 is a more recent version than 5.2.9.
-- brion
And that's unrelated to the error you were getting.
See, since that user page doesn't exist, mediawiki sends a page saying
that it doesn't exist and provides the HTTP code 404.
*The server should be showing that same page* but it is instead
replacing that correct page (with mediawiki skin, edit link...) with
another one saying ·Click the Back button in your browser to try another
link.", "Use a search engine like Google to look for information on the
Internet", etc.
And even worse, it is sending it uncompressed, but hasn't changed the
"Content-Encoding: gzip" header sent by mediawiki (as it was sending its
page gzipped). Firefox is told that the page is gzipped, but the content
is not, so it barfs out with that "Corrupted Content Error" page.
You need to request your hosting to not replace 404s with that page.