Hey Les as usual you were spot on. It definitely was the Firefox cache at play - I had connected to this box from Firefox previously before rebuilding it so something must have hung around from previous config. Cleared cache and all ok once more.
Cheers. On 08/11/14 16:40, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Sat, Nov 8, 2014 at 9:22 AM, Holger Parplies <wb...@parplies.de> wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom wrote on 2014-11-07 09:54:01 -0500 [Re: >> [BackupPC-users] web GUI downloading BIN file Ubuntu 14.04]: >>> On 11/07 12:20 , Tom Fallon wrote: >>>> The problem appears to be one of PEBKAC :( I tried accessing the GUI on >>>> another browser and it's fine. My (normally reliable) Firefox install >>>> appears to be the culprit not the backuppc installation as I can access >>>> in Chromium absolutely fine. Should really have tried that first.... >>>> >>>> So sorry to trouble everyone with a non-issue however hopefully my >>>> admission of stupidity here may help someone else with the same problem >>>> from making the same mistake as I did.... >>> well, that's different. >>> Thanks for the update at least! >> while I'm no web server configuration guru, to me, this actually does sound >> like a web server configuration issue as the root cause (or possibly the CGI >> that generates the page, though I suspect we'd have heard of the problem >> frequently before). Something like an incorrect MIME type that Chromium >> handles differently than Firefox, an incorrect character encoding, an >> incorrect or missing HTTP header field, strange characters in the generated >> page ... > Maybe firefox has cached the static script file contents from a > previous misconfiguration and isn't even requesting it again now that > the issue is fixed. I'd try a 'clear cache' or using the same browser > from another machine. In any case the apache log file entry might be > interesting if you can still get it to return the script text instead > of executing it. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Comprehensive Server Monitoring with Site24x7. Monitor 10 servers for $9/Month. Get alerted through email, SMS, voice calls or mobile push notifications. Take corrective actions from your mobile device. http://pubads.g.doubleclick.net/gampad/clk?id=154624111&iu=/4140/ostg.clktrk _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/