Broken TYPO3 front-end (encoding)

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I have a TYPO3 4.5.37 website which works perfect on my local windows enviorement, but after uploading it to a Linux environment I get a broken front-end (the back-end is functioning normally) see: Broken TYPO3 front-end

What I already tried;

  • Converted all database tables to a utf8_general_ci collation
  • [BE][forceCharset] = utf-8
  • [SYS][setDBinit] = SET NAMES utf8;

When I drop my database (so there is no connection) the problem with the output is still there so I think this has nothing to do with the database. The website outputs the front-end with TemplaVoila, I updated TemplaVoila from 1.6.x to 1.9.2 but this didn't work.

On the same server are a lot of other working TYPO3 sites hosted so this has probably nothing to do with the server settings.

I'm running out of options now. So I hope somebody can help me out here.

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As thats totally corrupted I'd wager something to do with gzip compression, try disabling it in the server. Providing the url may help. – Alex K.
I forgot to tell that on the same server a lot (like 600) other TYPO3 websites are hosted. This is our projects server. I can't provide the url. – Arek van Schaijk
Save that response to a file, open in hex editor, if the first 2 bytes are 1f,8b something is up with gzip/your content headers – Alex K.
I tried it, the first characters are FF, FE, 1F, 00, FD, FF, 08 – Arek van Schaijk

1 Answers

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I found the problem. The compressionLevel was set to '1' in the install tool, when turned off the problem with the encoding on the front-end disappeared.

[FE][compressionLevel]

Determines output compression of BE output. Makes output smaller but slows down the page generation depending on the compression level. Requires a) zlib in your PHP installation and b) special rewrite rules for .css.gzip and .js.gzip (please see _.htacces for an example). Range 1-9, where 1 is least compression and 9 is greatest compression. 'true' as value will set the compression based on the PHP default settings (usually 5). Suggested and most optimal value is 5.