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Last week I updated my install from 1.6.0 to 1.6.9 doing a fresh/full install as directed for a multi-version jump. I then created a new forum, copied a post, had people reply, everything seemed great. This weekend we noticed that all major web-browsers were getting and rendering garbage:

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All of the data is there. Curl and wget work just fine. Any ideas? Thanks.

- Brent

Do you have gzip compression enabled in the Server & Optimisation settings? If so, try disabling it.

I had recently enable compression in php.ini. I turned that back off, cleared my browser cache, but still rendering the same. Are you referring to a MyBB setting? It's really hard to find them right now w/o browser access.

- Brent

(2013-01-28, 07:02 PM)Euan T. Wrote: [ -> ]Do you have gzip compression enabled in the Server & Optimisation settings? If so, try disabling it.

Yes, you can try manually modifying the ./inc/settings.php file and see if GZip compressing is enabled or not. I forget the exact variable but if you paste the contents of the file, I can always tell you the changes if you can't find the correct variable.

Thanks for the fast help! The line in question was:

$settings['gzipoutput'] = "1";

Changing it to "0" made the page render in Chrome. Is there a real fix? they aren't the most active forums in the world, so efficiency isn't a huge deal, but it's always nice.

- Brent

(2013-01-28, 07:33 PM)Euan T. Wrote: [ -> ]Yes, you can try manually modifying the ./inc/settings.php file and see if GZip compressing is enabled or not. I forget the exact variable but if you paste the contents of the file, I can always tell you the changes if you can't find the correct variable.

Great. Now you'll have to go into the ACP and save the settings there unfortunately.

ACP > Configuration > Server & Optimization Settings > GZIP Encoding = Off

There isn't really any way around this. it seems your server is already compressing the output. Compressing it twice causes this issue.