Content Encoding Error

General General Questions
1

I’ve taken a backup of my live server’s database and restored it, locally, on my development machine. (Using the admin panel)



But now, when I access the test server I get the following error…


Content Encoding Error

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

The page you are trying to view cannot be shown because it uses an invalid or unsupported form of compression.

* Please contact the web site owners to inform them of this problem.



I can’t for the life of me understand what I’ve done to cause this…

2

What are you using locally, Xampp, Wamp?



Are you using zend optimizers or compression?

3

I have a dedicated linux box here, next to me :wink:



It’s running Apache. No optimisers or compression, AFAIK.

4

It’s taken me a very long time to sort this out, and for the sake of anyone else who comes across this…/…



Edit php.ini and change the line



zlib.output_compression = Off



to



zlib.output_compression = On



Sorted

5

how can we find php.ini