IE not showing PHP pages

kalver

Yes, thats a weird problem I'm having, all the archives i've searched have only NS users reporting this sort of thing. Basicly the problem i'm having is, that IE does not show any php pages, only blank, white screen. However, view source has all the html code that is needed. If you press back and forward, it loads the page normally. It cannot be related to any html syntac errors, because the very "picky" NS shows it, and IE cannot handle even most simple hello world echos 🙁

Because the problem does not seem to be related to any specific version of IE (had people reporting 5.0+ and upward about it) and some versions show the page, then i'm not even sure, if this is an IE configuration problem 🙁

Has anyone ever had same problems or know a solution, why this is happening?

Anon

IE does not care where the source of the html is coming from; php, java, perl, it could care less. If it is not displaying your html page then either there is an error in your html or your server is configured incorrectly and sending wrong headers or something equiv.

IE supports all kinds of "features" that netscape does not and it's possible netscape is ignoring something that IE interprets as "please render this page invisible".

kalver

Hmm... I checked the page also with lynx, and it shows fine, so it can't be NS, either, but could explain the IE "feature" part 🙂

Still, how can determine the source of this error? If some IE browsers show the pages and some don't, then how can i be sure it is IE problem not the servers? I checked the php_info, and 'HTTP Response Headers' has 'text/html; charset=iso-8859-4' as content-type.

I think if one has a charset defined, that IE currently does not have installed, then it wants to install it right away, and does not show the page, only blank screen. Could this be the reason? That if the response header has some unknown charset which IE knows not about, then it shows blank page?

jacks9999

I would bet $100 to $1 that somewhere there is an error in the HTML source.

And of course lynx would show it fine, it only shows source 😉

Post the HTML.

Jack

kalver

Nope, cannot be html source problem.

Have it most simple:
<head><title>blaah</title>
</head>
<body>
<?php
echo "I am a PHP script 🙂!";
?>
</body>

That's why I'm so desperate, because even most simple things don't show. Usually it is missing table end tags, and it only affects NS. So there 🙁

Anon

Try this page to make sure your syntax is coming out right:

http://validator.w3.org/

jacks9999

And what does your apache config look like?

kalver

It appeared, that php.ini file has the charset info in http response header. i changed that to iso-8859-1, which is default in all browsers. works fine now.