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IE and FF won't open index.html on port 8000

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NewtownGuy

NewtownGuy

Technical User
Jul 27, 2007
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Hello,

When I try to launch IE6 and FF2 using this line:

Code: 
[URL unfurl="true"]http://IPAddress:8000[/URL]

The browsers will not automatically open my index.html.

In IE I get this:

File Download.
Do you want to save this file ?
Type: Unknown File type, <size of it>

In FF I get this:

Opening
You have chosen to open
<blank>
which is a: text/x-server-parsed-html
from
What should Firefox do with this file?
Open with...
Save to Disk

Here's the opening of my index.html file:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Script-Type" CONTENT="text/javascript">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Pragma" CONTENT="no-cache">
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Cache-Control" CONTENT="no-cache">
<title>TITLE</title>
</head>
<body>

In IE, if I put this:

Code: 
[URL unfurl="true"]http://192.168.192.94:8000/index.html[/URL]

...into the URL line, the file opens fine. However, this same approach will not open the file in FF.

How can I code my index.html file so these browsers will automatically open it ? Or, is there anything I need to change in the setup of my Apache 2 HTTP server ?

Thank you.

-- NewtownGuy
 
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I changed the opening of the index.html file to this but I still get the same errors:

Code: 
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.1//EN" "[URL unfurl="true"]http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd">[/URL]
<html>
<head>
<META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=ISO-8859-5">
<title>TITLE</title> </head>

Is there a security defense in IE and FF that is objecting to the use of port 8000 ? But how does one setup a web page for little HTTP servers if they can't be accessed on anything other than port 80 ?

-- NewtownGuy
 
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Thank you. I don't know where the "text/x-server-parsed-html" statement is coming from.

 
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To BillyRayPreachersSon,

There seems to be two schools of thought on the source of this problem -- (a) the server and (b) the browser.

How do I reconfigure the web server to give a statement to the browser that avoids the problem ?

Thank you.

-- NewtownGuy
 
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I would suggest you follow feherke's advice and ask in the forum65. There are experts there that deal with apache configuration.

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Hi

Yes, NewtownGuy posted to the Apache group and I replied there. Unfortunately I had a typo in my reply : "the only involved is the browser configuration". Sorry again for the misleading sentence, of course there should be "server configuration".

Feherke.
 
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