Okay, I don't know if this is a server error or not. It just started happening 3 days ago.
Running SMF 1.1.10
Overview Theme
Website: http://www.obsidian-skywall.com/smf/
Browser reports this error upon load of page:
CGI Error
The Specified CGI Application misbehaved by not returning a complete set of HTTP headers.
Basically it will either refuse to load the page and just give me this error or if I keep hitting refresh enough, it will eventually load the page. I've reinstalled SMF 1.1.10 and added the base Overview theme (only changed the color and logo). When I say install, I removed everything from the server and then reinstalled it. I even created a new MySQL database to be certain nothing of the old was being reused.
While I thought it could be a browser issue (I use Safari 4.0.4) at work it does the same thing and it's running Internet Explorer. Again, it just started doing this like 3 days ago out of the blue and I'm thinking nothing that I do at my end is fixing it. So what could be going wrong at there end that would cause this?
You're running this on IIS? Read this (http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;EN-US;884764) and this (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/145661). The second says about changing the header. Neither may help but I figured I'd offer it. Of course, you probably already knew this as you did a Google search first, right? ;D
I think I would open a ticket with my host.
I opened a ticket with my host provider today. Hopefully they will have some answers. I do know they took the server offline last week and ever since then this error started showing up. I think I have deleted and reinstalled SMF like 3 times since then thinking some edit I did hosed things up. But it's just the base install now, and that won't even consistently load.
They obviously did something that is causing this. Hopefully they will get if fixed soon. Let us know what they say.
If your server is running PHP as a CGI app, the problem is something that your host is going to have to resolve. It has nothing to do with SMF, so don't bother reloading SMF again and again. There's nothing you can do, except to switch hosts (if they can't get it configured right).
Well apparently they (my provider) added a PHP.ini file into my root directory so all is good now :)
Glad to hear it. Marked this one as solved.