Or get a webhost that doesn't suck that much.

On Oct 22, 2011 5:45 PM, "Platonides" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Brion Vibber wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 20, 2011 at 10:12 AM, Norman<[email protected]>  wrote:
> >
> >> Dear Group.  Last night, I spoke with my webhosting technical support
> >> (iPower.com) and was told that their servers are running php5.2.17,
> >> and they have no plans to upgrade to php5.2.9, which is what mediawiki
> >> requires.
> >
> >
> > 5.2.17 is a more recent version than 5.2.9.
> >
> > -- brion
>
> And that's unrelated to the error you were getting.
> See, since that user page doesn't exist, mediawiki sends a page saying
> that it doesn't exist and provides the HTTP code 404.
> *The server should be showing that same page* but it is instead
> replacing that correct page (with mediawiki skin, edit link...) with
> another one saying ·Click the Back button in your browser to try another
> link.",  "Use a search engine like Google to look for information on the
> Internet", etc.
> And even worse, it is sending it uncompressed, but hasn't changed the
> "Content-Encoding: gzip" header sent by mediawiki (as it was sending its
> page gzipped). Firefox is told that the page is gzipped, but the content
> is not, so it barfs out with that "Corrupted Content Error" page.
>
> You need to request your hosting to not replace 404s with that page.
>
>
>
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