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[David Mintz]

Running Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.10 on my development machine, I have
a few vhosts and I need one of them to serve iso-8859-1 rather than UTF-8.
Try as I might, it remains UTF-8. I have added AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
to the vhost definition. In desperation I have also tried adding the same
directive to httpd.conf and apache2.conf. Nothing works. Wondering if it had
to do with PHP rather than static html, I have tried accessing a file that
is indeed static:  same story.

Wondering if there was something peculiar about this particular vhost, I
have tried setting and resetting the same value in other vhosts and looking
at the response headers after reloading the modified config, and it works as
it's supposed to. So, the question is, what's different? Answer:  I don't
know. Is the charset getting overridden by a local .htaccess file? No. Am I
remembering to tell Apache to reload its config after changing its config?
Yes.

The offending host definition looks like this:

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin david_mintz at nysd.uscourts.gov
Servername interps3
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
DocumentRoot /var/www/interps3
<Directory />
Options FollowSymLinks
AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /var/www/interps3>
Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
AllowOverride All
Order allow,deny
allow from all
</Directory>

 ErrorLog /var/log/apache2/interps3.error.log

# Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit,
# alert, emerg.
LogLevel warn
CustomLog /var/log/apache2/access.log combined
</VirtualHost>

and yet...


root at interps3:/etc/apache2/sites-available# curl -I interps3/index.php

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 20:13:27 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.12 (Ubuntu) PHP/5.2.10-2ubuntu6.5 with Suhosin-Patch
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.10-2ubuntu6.5
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Type: text/html; charset=utf-8

By the way, the reason I care is that there are MySQL tables defined as
latin1 with accented characters that aren't getting displayed correctly, and
I have been through this before and am reasonably certain that it's a
charset mismatch issue.


I am mystified. Any suggestions?

Gratefully,



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David Mintz
http://davidmintz.org/
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