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purpose: Will Kahn-Greene's blog of Python, Linux, random content, PyBlosxom, Miro, and other projects mixed in there ad hoc, half-baked, and with a twist of lemon

Wed, 15 Nov 2006

Apache not serving static files correctly?

I innocently did an apt-get dist-upgrade today and suddenly Apache wouldn't serve any static files, but anything generated by CGI scripts worked super! Apache would send the headers for static files complete with a Content-Length correctly but wouldn't send any data in the HTTP response (even for an HTTP 200).

I spent hours trying to figure out what was going on under the assumption that I did a bad upgrade. I skimmed documentation, made sure my conf files were ok, did dozens of Google searches and then finally gave up and walked away for a couple of hours.

Long story short I finally hit gold with the right mantra of search terms and bumped into the EnableSendFile directive. I added:

EnableSendFile Off

to my Apache conf file and it works fine now.

I mention it in case someone else does a dist-upgrade with Debian testing on or around November 15th, 2006 and discovers themselves in the same boat.

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