RE: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-29 Thread Jorge Medina
I recently had a similar behaviour with a company. I called to complain but they could not see any issue. The error would appear when the application switched from http to a https link. Their content protected by https was unable to be accessed through IE 7 (on Vista Business). I was able to acc

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-29 Thread Matus UHLAR - fantomas
> At 01:09 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote: > > >A "Page not Found" error is a DNS resolution issue. Since apache > >does not provide DNS resolution, make sure that DNS servers in place > >on that machine are reliable, and if possible, disable DNS caching. On 28.01.09 13:16, Evan Platt wrote: > Good ca

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread Evan Platt
At 02:42 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote: The one customer I am working on this problem with is a developer at an ISP thankfully, but he doesn't know Apache or Linux. He does have friendly errors turned off and he is getting the message: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage That still sou

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread Frank Gingras
That is a pretty useless error, indeed. The number of serious errors should not be considerable enough to prevent you from looking at each one of them separately, barring the obvious 404's. Frank. Ian Lauder wrote: The one customer I am working on this problem with is a developer at an ISP

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread Ian Lauder
The one customer I am working on this problem with is a developer at an ISP thankfully, but he doesn't know Apache or Linux. He does have friendly errors turned off and he is getting the message: Internet Explorer cannot display the webpage I'm still trying to get his IP address to compare to

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread André Warnier
Hi. You may or may not know that there is a particularity in IE about showing error pages. IE has some option called "show friendly error messages", in the advanced settings somewhere, which has the effect of not displaying many HTTP server's sent error pages, but instead displaying a built-in

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread Frank Gingras
Ian, I'll put my reply on top to keep this thread readable. This is leaning on microsoft windows support, but you can go to tools->Internet Options->Advanced, and uncheck the "Show friendly HTTP error messages" box and the real error should be reported on their screen, should anything happen.

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread Ian Lauder
Thanks for the comments. I'm in the early stages of trying to track down this problem and its not something I can replicate. All I know is that when I send out a mass mailing to 20,000 customers, I get on average 2 to 4 people saying the site is down and when I talk to them it turns out they

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread Evan Platt
At 01:09 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote: A "Page not Found" error is a DNS resolution issue. Since apache does not provide DNS resolution, make sure that DNS servers in place on that machine are reliable, and if possible, disable DNS caching. Good catch... forgot that. IE of course has some of the w

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread Evan Platt
At 01:05 PM 1/28/2009, you wrote: For the most part everyone can access my web sites on an Apache server V2.0.54 running on RedHat Linux Fedora 4 I keep getting sporadic reports from people who can not access the web sites from Internet Explorer, but they can access it from other browsers or

Re: [us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread Frank Gingras
Ian Lauder wrote: For the most part everyone can access my web sites on an Apache server V2.0.54 running on RedHat Linux Fedora 4 I keep getting sporadic reports from people who can not access the web sites from Internet Explorer, but they can access it from other browsers or computers (i.e.

[us...@httpd] Unable to access sites on an Apache server from Internet Explorer

2009-01-28 Thread Ian Lauder
For the most part everyone can access my web sites on an Apache server V2.0.54 running on RedHat Linux Fedora 4 I keep getting sporadic reports from people who can not access the web sites from Internet Explorer, but they can access it from other browsers or computers (i.e. switching to Firefo