Weird apache problem - flash and other file types

Hi,
i just installed apache 2.0.49 with php 4.3.6 on a newly formatted and installed winxp machine (with all windows updates).

Here is the problem.

a phpinfo() php file works fine. Html works fine.
But if i go to URL, it shows up some glibberish:

this is part of what it shows for one of my jpg files:



If i try to view an swf, or an swf embedded in an html file, the swf file does not load or show up. When i right click it, it just shows the movie not loaded menu.

If i load a page from my server with the picture embeded, it shows the red x, but if i open the html page up normally (not from server) it works fine.

What is weird is that, when i installed apache, i typed URL and it showed the test page, with the apache gif working properlly.

But then, if i copy an htm file with a gif or jpeg embeded to the htdocs folder, it doesnt seem to work. but if i link it to the apache gif it works. I also didnt make any changes to the httpd.conf file.

ANy ideas on how i could fix that?

My mime.types file is as it was, no changes to it, and jpeg and swf mime types is in it.

thanks

Metal Fusion

Did you just update your firewall? I upgraded zone alarm, which didn't allow anything over 64kb through. I shut down the service which helped, but I had to completely uninstall it to fix the problem.

Check out the Apache bugs list. This page (http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=10598) explained it for me.

Mike

hi mike,
thanks for your reply.

it seems like zonealarm 5.0 is causing the problem! (just did some tests).

i tried using Win32DisableAcceptEx on but it doesnt seem to work.
Did you come up with a solution to allow apache and zonealarm to work properly?

thanks

Metal Fusion

No, I just uninstalled it. I really didn't want to mess with it anymore.