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 <wbppc AT parplies DOT 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.
>


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