[CentOS] Server displaying ?

Fri Dec 9 15:19:44 UTC 2005
scott <scott.list at mlec.net>

Jay:

> scott wrote:
> > I figure this is an apache issue, but I dont' know where to look.  Since
> > moving my website from an older Redhat installation to my new Centos 4
> > server (all updates installed),  all my web pages display a "?" anywhere
I
> > have a non-breaking space.  If I do a view source in my browser I see
the "
> > " character, but when looking at it on my server via ssh, I see a
vertical
> > bar, similar, but not a pipe.  And when looking at the source on a
different
> > browser I see a ASCII 160 character.  But on all browsers, I'm seeing a
? on
> > the display, instead of the non-breaking space.
> >
> > Anyone know what I need to configure/correct/change in Apache to correct
> > this?
>
> We ran into this, too.  Look in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf and find the
> line that reads:
>
>      AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
>
> Comment it out and add a line just below it that reads:
>
>      AddDefaultCharset iso-8859-1
>
> Then restart or reload Apache.  The problem is that the default
> configuration sets the default character set for all pages to UTF-8
> instead of the 'real' default of iso-8859-1, AKA latin1.  There's a nice
> little block of comments just above it that explains what it is all about.
>
> Hope that helps!

This did the trick.  Thanks VERY much Jay.  I figured teh problem was
related to that parameter, but just didnt' know what to do with it.  My old
.cof file had it the same way (UTF-8) but not the behavior.  But in any
case, this fixed it.  MUCH appreciated.

Best,
Scott