Large includes (pictures, css) are truncated or not sent

External Since: May 28, 2004 Posts: 1

I am running windows XP on my laptop and have installed PHP Home Edition
2 which includes Apache2 and PHP and MySQL. I use this setup to develop
my pages.

The situation is that I have been running this for many months and it
worked fine. When I installed a CMS system to try it out it installed
its own apache and PHP over top and destroyed my setup. Now when I
reinstalled the system that worked before it is broken.

The problem is that now the pages that worked before are now broken. The
problem is that many of the images are not being delived, and the
imported CSS file is truncated. As a result things partially work but
not completely.

The system does send smaller image files but not larger ones. Anything
larger than about 4 K is not served, or served truncated. This results
in images not being shown and CSS files only partially working.

The pages and the browsers are fine because if I put the same files on
my linux box they serve up properly. In fact the generated HTML that is
delived is exactly the same between the two envionments.

I have uninstalled and cleaned up and reinstalled many times and the
problem remains. In seaching the archives of this group I have seen
others ask what seems like the same question, but I have not seen any
answers that work in my case.

Does anyone have any sugestions?

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--Will

External Since: Mar 29, 2004 Posts: 672

"Will Merrell" <nospam DeleteThis @coaching-life.com> schreef in bericht
news:Xns94F7BBD3D60BCwillcoachinglifecom@199.45.49.11...
> The problem is that now the pages that worked before are now broken.
> The problem is that many of the images are not being delivered, and the
> imported CSS file is truncated. As a result things partially work but
> not completely.
>
> The system does send smaller image files but not larger ones. Anything
> larger than about 4 K is not served, or served truncated. This results
> in images not being shown and CSS files only partially working.
>
> The pages and the browsers are fine because if I put the same files on
> my linux box they serve up properly. In fact the generated HTML that is
> delived is exactly the same between the two envionments.
>
> I have uninstalled and cleaned up and reinstalled many times and the
> problem remains. In seaching the archives of this group I have seen
> others ask what seems like the same question, but I have not seen any
> answers that work in my case.
>
> Does anyone have any sugestions?
A recent writing in this group noted it is a must to use binary mode file
access for eg images on _Windows_.
Not using binary mode may modify a sequence of CR and LF or assume End of
File at a the first occurance of ^Z, aka \x1A, thusn corrupting or
truncating the file. This may apply to your images if they pass through -as
in fpassthru <a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://nl.php.net/fpassthru-" target="_blank">http://nl.php.net/fpassthru-</a> any of your PHPscripts. However,
CSS files being affected too, worries me... in this type of a file a
spurious ^Z is quite unlikely.

The same troubles may arise from transfering files between Windows and
*nux -and backwards- with a FTPclient doing ASCII transfer on binary files
or "translating" end-of-line sequences.

Assuming you are now running Apache 2.0.49, just give 'Win32DisableAcceptEx'
a try. Put it anywhere -I'ld put it at the very top- of httpd.conf
<a style='text-decoration: underline;' href="http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mpm_winnt.html#win32disableacceptex" target="_blank">http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mpm_winnt.html#win32disableacceptex</a>

HansH