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This is an old revision of BlankPageWorkaround made by JavaWoman on 2005-01-23 12:05:00.
Only blank pages
Symptoms
In a newly-installed system (or one previously installed but migrated to a new host) accessing any page (including the home page and other pages that are known to exist) results in nothing but a blank page in the browser.Cause
Analysis
Check if the host that Wikka is installed on is inserting banners in your pages. The way to check is to install plain HTML page (so Wikak can be avoided). Many free (and some very cheap) hosts insert a banner. If your host does indeed insert a banner, the workaround below can provide a solution.Technical explanation
When a (free) host inserts a banner, it interferes with two things Wikka does by default:- when Gzip-encoding is active, inserting a banner just messes things up (causing the blank page); and
- Wikka calculates content-length for a HTTP header - which will be incorrect after the banner is inserted, so you would see a truncated page when Gzip is not active.
Workaround or Patch
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