Comments on: Apache, CIFS and Blank Documents http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/ A System Administrator's Blog Sun, 25 Apr 2010 18:35:41 -0400 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Brian http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Brian Tue, 27 Oct 2009 11:01:25 +0000 http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/#comment-155 Thank you very much for this post... I'm not exactly new to the game, and this was a real stumper! Google has now indexed you well! Thank you very much for this post… I’m not exactly new to the game, and this was a real stumper! Google has now indexed you well!

]]> By: Matt http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-149 Matt Sun, 26 Jul 2009 01:20:29 +0000 http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/#comment-149 Thanks, this has been driving me mad for hours! Thanks, this has been driving me mad for hours!

]]> By: Keith http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-135 Keith Fri, 29 May 2009 17:48:13 +0000 http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/#comment-135 thanks for saving me hours of work. i was sharing an apple drive via cifs and couldn't figure out why apache only served partial pages where images and pages were half loaded. its weird that you could press reload on firefox and it would slowly add the rest of the image. but you had to click like 10 times to get the whole page. IE would just say its broken. after adding EnableSendfile off to the httpd.conf file and restarting, everything was fixed! thank you so much. -keith thanks for saving me hours of work. i was sharing an apple drive
via cifs and couldn’t figure out why apache only served partial pages where images and pages were half loaded. its weird that you could press reload on firefox and it would slowly add the rest of the image. but you had to click like 10 times to get the whole page. IE would just say its broken.

after adding EnableSendfile off to the httpd.conf file and restarting, everything was fixed!

thank you so much.

-keith

]]> By: Naveed http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-134 Naveed Mon, 25 May 2009 14:28:13 +0000 http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/#comment-134 I have spent so much time in trying to fix this issue. I decided today that if i dont fix this issue i wont come back to it again. But with this magic line i was able to fix it. Thank you very much....:) I have spent so much time in trying to fix this issue. I decided today that if i dont fix this issue i wont come back to it again. But with this magic line i was able to fix it. Thank you very much….:)

]]> By: Eric http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-98 Eric Thu, 19 Feb 2009 13:01:44 +0000 http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/#comment-98 You spelled the magic word: "EnableSendfile"! Now here it works, thank you :-) Eric You spelled the magic word: “EnableSendfile”!
Now here it works, thank you :-)

Eric

]]> By: incubi http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-97 incubi Thu, 05 Feb 2009 22:47:22 +0000 http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/#comment-97 I was just about to give up for the day on this and found your little gold nugget here. THANK YOU!!! for posting this. Very true not much on Google on it. Lee :) I was just about to give up for the day on this and found your little gold nugget here.
THANK YOU!!! for posting this. Very true not much on Google on it.

Lee :)

]]> By: Andrew Sharpe http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/comment-page-1/#comment-35 Andrew Sharpe Fri, 22 Feb 2008 05:14:50 +0000 http://www.cultofgary.com/2008/02/08/apache-cifs-and-blank-documents/#comment-35 Absolute gold - I didn't find this post until I searched for the apache debug message and this was the only hit. I'm hoping this gets easier to find for others as time goes on, but I'm not banking on it. I had this problem for both a CIFS mount and a UnionFS mount, and it was interesting to see that a http connection failed to return the file, while https was able to (indicating that https doesn't use sendfile by default) The EnableSendfile directive fixed the problem for both mounts. Cheers heaps :) Andrew Absolute gold – I didn’t find this post until I searched for the apache debug message and this was the only hit. I’m hoping this gets easier to find for others as time goes on, but I’m not banking on it.

I had this problem for both a CIFS mount and a UnionFS mount, and it was interesting to see that a http connection failed to return the file, while https was able to (indicating that https doesn’t use sendfile by default)

The EnableSendfile directive fixed the problem for both mounts.

Cheers heaps :)

Andrew

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