Only IE8 doesn't work?

  • Doug

    (@ddodge2)


    15 years, 5 months ago

    Hi Folks,

    Newbie @ WordPress & PHP, 25+ year programmer in other languages.

    Problem: ONLY IE8 ON server when remoted in does NOT transition from wp-login.php to wp-admin directory and then pick up the admin page. Firefox works just fine. I get the (apparently) dreaded WSOD.

    Chromwe, IE8, Firefox & Opera all work just fine from desktop – through IIS6.0 ‘front door’. Firefox works just fine on remote desktop (localhost to server)

    Setup: Windows 2003 R2, PHP 5.3.0, WordPress 3.0.3
    Set up HOSTS file to direct traffic locally on server & from desktop – site not on web yet. Nothing exotic though playing with Suffusion theme (really like it so far). Haven’t made any changes really.

    I figure at this point that this has something to do with some obscure ‘work everywhere but where you are totally trusted’ setting in IE8 but since almost all settings in IE are, by definition, ‘obscure’ 🙂 I’d surely appreciate any suggestions or recommendations.

    Well, other than, ‘Don’t use IE8 on the server.’ 🙂

    Thanks

    Doug

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  • Thread Starter Doug

    (@ddodge2)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    Oh, one other thing I forgot to mention.

    If I manually enter ‘wp-admin’ in place of ‘wp-login.php’ while watching the blank screen everything works as expected. So, login credentials are apparently woking just fine.

    Thread Starter Doug

    (@ddodge2)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    Ahem. And ‘Chromwe’ is a browser developed by Elmer Fudd 🙂

    Moderator Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)

    (@ipstenu)

    🏳️‍🌈 Advisor and Activist

    15 years, 5 months ago

    IE 8 on the server? What kind of server?

    And FWIW, I’ve found that the IE install Microsoft put on their server OS is a crippled POS.

    Thread Starter Doug

    (@ddodge2)

    15 years, 5 months ago

    Ipstenu,

    Well, as I mentioned above it’s Windows 2003 R2. As far as the hardware goes I believe it’s an intel rack-mounted server I inhereted from work a few years back. I’m not too worried about this as it actually does work, with a ‘nudge’ but for goodness sakes, you’d think that that wouldn’t be necessary. I think PHP confuses it. 🙂

    Still looking for the ‘ah ha!’ moment.

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