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- vladG
- 28 Jan 12, 9:23 pm
- Comment #1

I found that Internet Explorer tries to save the landing page instead of opening it (other browsers work fine). Here's the link:

xanderadvertising.mcas.ro

I'm trying to improve site performance by manipulating .htaccess and HTTP headers and I think there's a conflict somewhere.

Other pages are working well:

xanderadvertising.mcas.ro/en

Any ideas why IE behaves like that?

I can't even debug it. IE instantly tries to save it. The debugger won't even get to first line of PHP code.

Here's the .htaccess:

### Symphony 2.2.x ###
Options +FollowSymlinks -Indexes

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>

    RewriteEngine on
    RewriteBase /

    ### SECURITY - Protect crucial files
    RewriteRule ^manifest/(.*)$ - [F]
    RewriteRule ^workspace/utilities/(.*).xsl$ - [F]
    RewriteRule ^workspace/pages/(.*).xsl$ - [F]
    RewriteRule ^(.*).sql$ - [F]
    RewriteRule (^|/). - [F]

    ### DO NOT APPLY RULES WHEN REQUESTING "favicon.ico"
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} favicon.ico [NC]
    RewriteRule .* - [S=14]

    ### IMAGE RULES
    RewriteRule ^image/(.+.(jpg|gif|jpeg|png|bmp))$ extensions/jit_image_manipulation/lib/image.php?param=$1 [L,NC]

    ### STATIC FILES COMPRESSOR BEGIN REWRITE
    RewriteRule ^.*/SFC.([a-z]+)$ extensions/static_files_compressor/lib/compress.php?mode=$1&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
    ### STATIC FILES COMPRESSOR END

    ### CHECK FOR TRAILING SLASH - Will ignore files
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !/$
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(.*)/$
    RewriteRule ^(.*)$ $1/ [L,R=301]

    ### URL Correction
    RewriteRule ^(xandercms/)?index.php(/.*/?) $1$2 [NC]

    ### ADMIN REWRITE
    RewriteRule ^xandercms/?$ index.php?mode=administration&%{QUERY_STRING} [NC,L]

    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^xandercms(/(.*/?))?$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&mode=administration&%{QUERY_STRING}  [NC,L]

    ### LANGUAGE REDIRECT RULES start
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(ro|en)-?()?/(.*/?)$ index.php?language=$1&region=$2&symphony-page=$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]
    ### LANGUAGE REDIRECT RULES end

    ### FRONTEND REWRITE - Will ignore files and folders
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
    RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
    RewriteRule ^(.*/?)$ index.php?symphony-page=$1&%{QUERY_STRING}    [L]

</IfModule>
######

<IfModule mod_deflate.c>
    #Compress js css and fonts
    AddOutputFilter DEFLATE js css

    #The following line also enables compression by file content type, for the following list of Content-Type:s
    AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/html text/plain text/xml application/xml

    #The following lines are to avoid bugs with some browsers
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4 gzip-only-text/html
    BrowserMatch ^Mozilla/4.0[678] no-gzip
    BrowserMatch bMSIE !no-gzip !gzip-only-text/html 
</IfModule>

<IfModule mod_headers.c>

    ### remove ETag
    Header unset ETag
    FileETag None

    ### Set long-term expires
    <FilesMatch "(?i)^.*.(ico|flv|jpg|jpeg|png|gif|js|css)$">
        Header set Last-Modified "Wed, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:00 GMT"
        Header set Expires "Fri, 21 Dec 2012 00:00:00 GMT"
        Header set Cache-Control "public, no-transform"
    </FilesMatch>

    <FilesMatch ".(js|css|xml|gz)$">
        Header append Vary Accept-Encoding
    </FilesMatch>
</IfModule>

Thank you.

- iwyg
- 28 Jan 12, 10:37 pm
- Comment #2

~~Hm, maybe wrong Content type. Can you check your http headers?~~

Your content type should be something like Content-Type:text/html; charset=utf-8 but it’s only set to the charset encoding.

- vladG
- 28 Jan 12, 11:33 pm
- Comment #3

Thanks. I fixed the above issue, but the problem persists :( Already 2 days of frustration ...

- vladG
- 28 Jan 12, 11:34 pm
- Comment #4

Looking at Language redirect rule from .htaccess

RewriteRule ^(ro|en)-?()?/(.*/?)$ index.php?language=$1&region=$2&symphony-page=$3&%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

I can't stop wondering why does

xanderadvertising.mcas.ro/en

work and

xanderadvertising.mcas.ro

doesn't ...

- designermonkey
- 29 Jan 12, 2:41 am
- Comment #5

You've got a lot of rules modifying headers there, try taking out the compression, and then the other rules to see if that makes a difference.

- vladG
- 29 Jan 12, 7:48 pm
- Comment #6

I just tested it today and it's working now ... ??

I think it was related to Content-type header and cache period which is set to 1 day (86400, Cachelite default). Due to miss-formed Content-type: charset=utf-8 header, somehow IE was messed up, and atm, > 1 day later, it's working.

Thanks for help.

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