I have been doing some speed optimization tests and changes to improve a joomla 3 site and now the site and admin works fine until I try and add a new article and the page will not load I just get a browser "Content Encoding Error". It seems to effect FireFox more than Chrome for some reason.
2 Answers
This could happen when gzip compression is enabled and your browser isn't configured to accept compressed content.
Try the following
- In Firefox address bar, type
about:config
- If a warning is shown, accept and proceed.
- In search bar, type
encoding
- For
network.http.accept-encoding
option, double click on value - Change it to
gzip,deflate
. Click Ok. - Refresh and try adding a new article.
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It worked again turning off gzip, thank you. But why cant I have gzip on the frontend and off in the back? Apr 25, 2014 at 14:29
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1I am not too sure about if gzip is enabled for both (admin and frontend) or only frontend when you enable it from settings. Personally I too would prefer if it gets enabled only for frontend. But I believe that using htaccess you should be able to disable gzip for back end, e.g. administrator directory. Apr 26, 2014 at 19:14
- Clear the browser cache
- Clean Joomla Cache
- If it still does not work then disable 'Gzip Page Compression' global configuration.
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1This is not a browser cache issue, but can see those 3 steps as worth a try to teach people before checking other things Apr 29, 2014 at 8:18