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**pangel** · 08-19-2007, 06:37 AM

Hi everyone !

I came across a very strange problem - never saw this before.

Here is my website : http://bmathon.club.fr/ (Joomla based)

Works perfectly on IE6/FF/Opera/Safari...but IE7 says it cannot display the page - end of story.

I repeated the problem on several computers. I copy/pasted the rendered source to a static file - no problem. I transferred the whole website to another host - no problem.

I'm not sure whether here is the good forum to ask this question - anyway, I would really appreciate some help. Can't figure out what's wrong.

**Sandman420** · 08-19-2007, 11:32 AM

I'm definitely no expert at this. It sounds like a conflict with the script/plugins you are running and the configuration of the host server. I've seen similar problems with ie when I installed certain plugins for wordpress. I would check the error logs of the server and try disabling some of the plugins to see if you can isolate the problem.

It wouldn't be a bad idea to create a copy of the website on your host to troubleshoot the problem.

**ADAM Web Design** · 08-19-2007, 12:21 PM

That's messed up. I mean really messed up. I've never seen that before.

The only thing I can come up with is that your page somehow detects something in IE7 that sends it somewhere it's not supposed to...or that your subdomain appears to redirect to another subdomain (perso2.club-internet.fr).

**vangogh** · 08-19-2007, 05:21 PM

That is odd.

I ran your page through html validation and it returned some errors. Something tells me one or more of them are causing the problems for IE7.

**mgraphic** · 08-19-2007, 05:46 PM

In IE6, I noticed that the page is reloading itself endlessly, although the page is seen with full content, its just reloading itself over and over (so I don't think its a httpd redirect issue).

**pangel** · 08-19-2007, 08:20 PM

Fixed !

I don't know about the reloading issue but I think it might be due to my host's javascript ads. Nothing I can do about it.

My research led me to the conclusion that it could not be about the HTML markup since I tried to display something like this :

HTML Code:

<html><head></head><body>Test</body></html>

without much success. So it had to be fixed from within php.

Well, actually it was an IE7 problem I could fix by deactivating Gzip compression.

That's it : no more Gzip, and it's all fine. I don't have the time to look around and see if it has been a reported issue but I'd be interested if you ever heard about such a problem. My guess would be : Joomla sends a gzipped version of the page, my host intercepts it and adds non-compressed javascript at the end of the file. IE screams.

**vangogh** · 08-20-2007, 07:25 PM

I never would have guessed gzip was the problem, but it's good to know and I'm glad you figured it out.

When I looked at the validation most of the errors I was seeing were scripting and not html, but I wasn't seeing them when I looked at the source.

**mgraphic** · 08-20-2007, 08:16 PM

I have experienced problems with this too in the past with CMS apps using GZip for buffer compression and sometimes it worked, and sometimes it didn't (gave a blank page). Forgot about this problem though.

However, since your fix, the page has stopped reloading repeatly for me