PHTML

Rashkae ubuntu at tigershaunt.com
Wed Sep 17 20:38:33 UTC 2008


Derek Broughton wrote:
> Markus Schönhaber wrote:
> 
>> Darryl Tidd:
>>
>>> I have an issue when I visit http://www.xplanner.org.  Firefox prompts me
>>> to
>>> open or save the file.  I don't think this is the default behavior.
>>> I have goolgled the issue and have found several things, the problem is,
>>> that the solutions I have found are for viewing PHTML on one's own web
>>> server.
>> And that's where the problem has to be solved: on the server. More
>> precisely: on www.xplanner.org.
>>
>>> For instance, I have seen solutions that call for changes to apache or
>>> apache2 configurations.  I don't see how changing my apache configuration
>>> on my local machine will help my problem(please do correct me if I'm
>>> wrong).
>> Nothing you do on your local machine will change the behaviour of the
>> server for www.xplanner.org.
> 
> Nothing?  I find that really hard to believe, though I admit I'm having some
> trouble myself...
> 
>> You've obviously done your homework, i. e. tried on your own to find a
>> solution before posting to the list. I highly respect that.
>> But, alas, in this particular case you've wasted your time. It's the
>> admin of www.xplanner.org who should have done the research instead of
>> delivering an HTML page with a content-type of
>> "application/x-httpd-php". 
> 
> I went through this with somebody else a while back, and he insisted his
> custom type was correct - and hard to argue with him when IE was handling
> it out of the box.
> 
>> If you like, you can contact the webmaster of xplanner.org and propose
>> that he tries to open his site in a browser himself and ask if he is
>> able to spot the error in the picture.
> 
> I'd be really surprised if it doesn't work for him...

Even IE doesn't handle this site unless you add index.html file to the
URL.. it's just really, really borked.




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