Looks to me like you have enabled output compression (content encoding) - you better turn that off, coppermine doesn't support gzip compression.
I think you are right here.
Our Apache server has compression (mod_deflate) setup in the main config area:
SetOutputFilter DEFLATE
I think this is the culprit. Our servers tell the browser it is getting a compressed steam and the browser de-compresses it to display the page. This has never been a problem and we run alot of php websites (Wordpress/phpBB/ZenPhoto/OSCommerce/Drupal/Joomla/...). We have NO problems with any other apps/customers on over a dozen webservers. I cannot turn this off on the whole box just for one customer.
I have tried to turn it off just for this site through the virtual listing config area, but haven't had much luck. Funny, Apache and Google searches yield info on turning compression on, turning it on for certain content, but not as we want to be config'd: Compression on as default for most content, turned off on one Virtual host entry.
As the admin I went into the virtual host conf area for this site and added:
<Directory /path/to/wisbech-engineering.co.uk/www>
AllowOverride All
RemoveOutputFilter DEFLATE
</Directory>
but it is still showing garbage. I also looked thru the Admin config page and tried some of the Lang settings in case that was the problem.
Any ideas? I'd like to help here but if it cannot be done in the Virtual config area, then we cannot help this customer.
Posted by: John (a Meccahosting admin)