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If you get Content Encoding Error in Joomla, set ‘GZIP Page Compression’ option to ‘No’ in your global configuration. Or simply change the $mosConfig_gzip value to 0 in configuration.php file.
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If your are seeing nothing but just garbage/binary codes on every single page of your gallery2 installation, it is because the data type for cache data is stored in an inappropriate format. To fix this, change the data type of g_value column in CacheMap table to binary format (see below for a screenshot from [...]

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To resolve Utf-8 encoding problem that you experience when you restore a MySQL database, here is a quick and easy fix.
You will first need to make sure that appropriate encoding/collation (eg: utf8_bin, latin1_swedish_ci, etc) is being used for your database and tables before you attempt the following steps.
1. Open your [...]

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Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 8388608 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 128 bytes) in /home/yoursite/public_html/index.php on line 1051
The above error is caused by not having enough memory to execute the requested page.
You can adjust the memory limit at run time by specifying the following at the very beginning of your php file (eg: index.php)
ini_set(‘memory_limit’,'12M’);
Or [...]

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If Dreamweaver crashes during site cache rebuild at start up, here are a few things you could do to solve the problem:
1. Undo the latest code updates you made to the site that you are currently working on
2. Rename/move the cache folder (usually in C:\Documents and Settings\[user]\Application Data\Macromedia\Dreamweaver MX 2004\Configuration\SiteCache)
3. Rename the folder of the [...]

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Many people seem to be having issues with accessing certain websites using TPG Internet service provider. For those who don’t know, TPG uses an intercepting proxy (also known as a “transparent proxy”) which means if you do not specify a specific proxy server in your browser, they have a default proxy which will [...]

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