[Typo3] Frontend stays white after switch to PHP5

Sat Nov 26 18:05:21 CET 2005

Torsten Schrade schrieb:
> Hi list,
> 
> I'm experiencing a strange effect after switching to PHP5 on my server: 
> the frontends of all TYPO3 sites stay white. There's no more output than 
> <html><body></body></html>...?

Ok, after sacrificing a sunny saturday afternoon I finally found the 
culprit: I had gzip compression enabled in $TYPO3_CONF_VARS and set to 
'TRUE' for both, FE and BE - this seems not to work with php5...

This line in apache error log points to the problem:

[client 84.169.141.224] PHP Warning:  gzcompress() expects parameter 2 
to be long, string given in 
/srv/www/typo3/typo3_src/typo3_src-3.8.1/t3lib/class.gzip_e
ncode.php on line 187

Setting gzcompress to a value between 0-9 seems to work though. 
Strangely enough, the whole thing only affected FE but not BE.
Finally, I'm up and running with php5 (and it's definitely 5.04 :-)) and 
a big thank you goes to everybody participating in this thread.

Cheerio,
Torsten