Hi guys,

I've got WAMP set up on my laptop. I have a large number of websites working on my laptop using WAMP (in order to be able to parse PHP) but for some reason one website is acting strangely.

When I try to view the .html pages every single browser offers the open/save dialogue box. This only happens on some of the pages but I can't figure out why.

Has anyone else experienced this before?

Thanks in advance.

Ed

The server is sending the wrong MIME Type (ContentType) to the browser.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

The server is sending the wrong MIME Type (ContentType) to the browser.

Hi Chris,

Thanks for the reply. How do I go about viewing the MIME info sent by the server and most importantly amending it?

I've got a .htaccess file with the following line;

AddHandler application/x-httpd-php5 .html .htm

When i comment it out and restart apache most of the pages start to work but some suffer the same problem as above.

Best wishes,

Ed

In that case it would appear that the php5 daemon/service isn't running on your machine.

Originally Posted by chrishirst

In that case it would appear that the php5 daemon/service isn't running on your machine.

Hi Chris,

I don't know how that makes sense though as the issue is intermittent and arises on different pages (on the same site). I.e. some pages work fine and others don't. When I reset apache the pages that it effects will change.

Any thoughts?

do pages with .php extensions work ok?

Originally Posted by chrishirst

do pages with .php extensions work ok?

Yeah they work ok. The .html files work too but for some reason only a few of them are being offered to download. When I restart apache the files that it affects will change (but the problem will still be prevelant).

Hmm? This is quite confusing.

Use webbug to see what headers are being sent with the pages.

Originally Posted by EdB

Yeah they work ok. The .html files work too but for some reason only a few of them are being offered to download. When I restart apache the files that it affects will change (but the problem will still be prevelant).

Hmm? This is quite confusing.

This may happen when in your .html you have some php code or tags <? .. ?>


You should also validate your html page on w3schools and try also to add this meta tag

<META HTTP-EQUIV="Author" CONTENT="WebMasterTalker">

Originally Posted by webmastertalker

This may happen when in your .html you have some php code or tags <? .. ?>


You should also validate your html page on w3schools and try also to add this meta tag

 
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Author" CONTENT="WebMasterTalker">
 

Hi, thanks for the feedback.

Just to complete the story, I have no idea why but changing the Author tags in all of the pages (as below) worked;

from --> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Author" CONTENT="Previous company name">
to --> <META HTTP-EQUIV="Author" CONTENT="Design Mate Ltd">

Thanks for the help, I'm glad that's sorted now even though I don't get it.