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From: Ashley Sheridan on 30 Jul 2010 05:47
On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 18:45 -0600, Tristan wrote:

> Yeah like i said site works 95% of the time when navigating. PHP5.2, Mysql
> 5. The site is completely dynamic so it wouldn't work at all if that was the
> case of it not being installed right.
>
> so the other 5% of the time is blank pages and download index.php files. In
> Firefox when you get a blank page, if you click view source it will show all
> the code that should be there but, I can't tell if it's requesting the page
> again when you do that. It never fails 2 times in a row. A refresh will
> always fix it. When you look in firebug there is no html so it leads me to
> believe FF may be doing just that...going for a second request instead of
> viewing currently opened source? In IE8 I would get something like
>
> diagnose problem button
>
> more information drop down with
>
> this problem can be caused by a variety of issues..this is a completely
> typical M$ error with no valid help
>
>
>
> chrome same thing with
>
> web page cannot be displayed
>
> more information etc...
>
>
>
>
>
> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:36 PM, David McGlone <david(a)dmcentral.net> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 18:11 -0600, Tristan wrote:
> > > I have the strangest issue with my host. They can't figure it out and I'm
> > > completely perplexed. We have other sites running on the server just
> > fine.
> > > However, this new site is acting very weird. Sometimes we get blank
> > pages,
> > > sometimes we get a blank page and then a dialog pops up asking if we want
> > to
> > > download index.php, and then sometimes the site is working fine. Any
> > ideas
> > > on this?
> > >
> > > I'm at ends. Appreciate any advice. For authentication we are using mysql
> > > auth module in apache/linux and proxy pass. We removed proxy pass to see
> > if
> > > that was it but, it wasn't. its a members.domain.com subdomain if that
> > > helps.
> >
> > Do you have php-mysql installed?
> >
> >
> > --
> > Blessings,
> > David M.
> >
> >


The only reason I can think of for it not working 100% of the time is
that the server conditions aren't the same 100% of the time. Is
everything being served from the same server all the time, or are you
using any sort of cloud or load balancing setup? Also, what do your
error and access logs say? Are the access logs recording every hit, even
the failed ones?

Lastly, have a look at the output of a phpinfo() call to see if that
shows anything obviously different from your development setup.

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


From: Ashley Sheridan on 30 Jul 2010 14:50
On Fri, 2010-07-30 at 13:38 -0400, Adam Richardson wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Bill Guion <bguion(a)comcast.net> wrote:
>
> > At 6:45 PM -0600 7/29/10, Tristan wrote:
> >
> > Yeah like i said site works 95% of the time when navigating. PHP5.2, Mysql
> >> 5. The site is completely dynamic so it wouldn't work at all if that was
> >> the
> >> case of it not being installed right.
> >>
> >> so the other 5% of the time is blank pages and download index.php files.
> >> In
> >> Firefox when you get a blank page, if you click view source it will show
> >> all
> >> the code that should be there but, I can't tell if it's requesting the
> >> page
> >> again when you do that. It never fails 2 times in a row. A refresh will
> >> always fix it. When you look in firebug there is no html so it leads me to
> >> believe FF may be doing just that...going for a second request instead of
> >> viewing currently opened source? In IE8 I would get something like
> >>
> >> diagnose problem button
> >>
> >> more information drop down with
> >>
> >> this problem can be caused by a variety of issues..this is a completely
> >> typical M$ error with no valid help
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> chrome same thing with
> >>
> >> web page cannot be displayed
> >>
> >> more information etc...
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 6:36 PM, David McGlone <david(a)dmcentral.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> On Thu, 2010-07-29 at 18:11 -0600, Tristan wrote:
> >>> > I have the strangest issue with my host. They can't figure it out and
> >>> I'm
> >>> > completely perplexed. We have other sites running on the server just
> >>> fine.
> >>> > However, this new site is acting very weird. Sometimes we get blank
> >>> pages,
> >>> > sometimes we get a blank page and then a dialog pops up asking if we
> >>> want
> >>> to
> >>> > download index.php, and then sometimes the site is working fine. Any
> >>> ideas
> >>> > on this?
> >>> >
> >>> > I'm at ends. Appreciate any advice. For authentication we are using
> >>> mysql
> >>> > auth module in apache/linux and proxy pass. We removed proxy pass to
> >>> see
> >>> if
> >>> > that was it but, it wasn't. its a members.domain.com subdomain if
> >>> that
> >>> > helps.
> >>>
> >>> Do you have php-mysql installed?
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> --
> >>> Blessings,
> >>> David M.
> >>>
> >>>
> >>>
> > Does the page validate at http://jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator/?
> >
> > -----===== Bill =====-----
> > --
> >
> > Don't find fault. Find a remedy. - Henry Ford
> >
> >
> >
> > --
> > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/)
> > To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
> >
> >
> Tristan,
>
> The good news is that you're not crazy. I've had this exact issue (at least
> in terms of symptoms) when working with one of my client's websites.
>
> The bad news is that this was long ago, I was using a shared host, and I'm
> not the one who cause or, more importantly, fixed the problem. That said,
> I've strained my memory to try and recall what might have been said in the
> follow-up from the host, and it seems like there was a mime-type handling
> issue (again, I could be completely wrong, this is just a faint memory.)
>
> Another faint memory: are you able to see a difference in behavior when you
> view an index file with the file included in the url (
> http://yoursite.com/index.php) as opposed to when you view the page without
> it in the url (http://yoursite.com)?
>
> Sorry, I wish I still had my email exchange with the company to see what
> information they provided after the fix :(
>
> Adam
>

Actually, you just saying that made me think of a similar problem I had
once with IIS serving up files. It was XML files rather than PHP, but
the Mime issue does ring a bell!

Is the server you're using IIS Tristan?

Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk


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