Problem with Apache 2 and variables with German chars

MagnuM

Hello,

I have some problems when sending string variables over GET which contain ä or ö characters. When I use Apache 2 it gives me an 500 Error (Internal Server Error), but with Apache 1.3 it works very good. I only send this variable and publish it in the page title.

If I put %E4 instead ä it works very nice. I also could build a function which make this transformations, but I'm not sure that this is a solution.

So anyone can help me with a httpd.conf solution, or anything else?

PHPThorsten

Could you attach your httpd.conf and php.ini please.

I'm using Apache 2.0.43 with PHP 4.3.? and don't have any trouble with german umlauts.

MagnuM

My Php is the same (Php 4.3.1), only that with Apache 1.3 works and with Apache 2 don't.

By the way, I am under Windows 2000.

Here is my httpd.conf.

PHPThorsten

Sorry, but I don't see anything strange different to my config.

Are normal HTML pages displayed correct?
PHP Pages with
<?php
phpinfo();
?>
too?

Realy only if you submit german umlauts? Or if you submit any type of data?

MagnuM

I work in PHP for about 2 years developing about 12 web sites with diferrent SQL databases. Trust me I know what I'm doing.

When I put an umlaut in href, my server Apache 2.0 give me the error 500 -> Internal Server Error. I look over the error_log where it says:

Cannont create child process (Php.exe).

But with Apache 1.3 work fine. It's a weird. And I can't explain whats happening. Anyway I have made a function wich replace all german characters with the HTTP standard ones so ä becomes %E4 and so on.

And this is happening only under I.E. 6. Netscape an Opera mekes this replacement automaticaly in the URLs.

PHPThorsten

Do you have enabled support for western-european-languages?

I think you can set this anywhere in system-control, but not sure...