Inconsistencies in how HTTP headers are handled between servers

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shadowq

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So, I've obviously set something up differently, but I have one DA host that is handling the HTTP headers differently, and I'm not sure why.

On all other DA hosts, sending a 401 or 503 still allows the webpage to be displayed correctly. However, on one host, I'm getting white pages with generic errors.

503 error-
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401 error-
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Now, I'm sure it's something simple, but can anyone please point me in the right direction?
 
shadowq said:
So, I've obviously set something up differently, but I have one DA host that is handling the HTTP headers differently, and I'm not sure why.

On all other DA hosts, sending a 401 or 503 still allows the webpage to be displayed correctly. However, on one host, I'm getting white pages with generic errors.

503 error-
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401 error-
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Now, I'm sure it's something simple, but can anyone please point me in the right direction?
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Files in private or public html , and http or https
 
Thanks for the reply!

ikkeben said:
Files in private or public html , and http or https
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All in public_html, all https. It's the one entire host- dozens of users. I've looked through all the customisations to compare with other hosts, but can't find any discrepancies.
 
shadowq said:
Thanks for the reply!


All in public_html, all https. It's the one entire host- dozens of users. I've looked through all the customisations to compare with other hosts, but can't find any discrepancies.
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Yes ok but there are not privatehtml directory's then?

You also forgot to post versions?

DA , OS and much more .
 
ikkeben said:
Yes ok but there are not privatehtml directory's then?

You also forgot to post versions?

DA , OS and much more .
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All domains have symlinks set up, private_html -> public_html.

DA 1.63.4
Centos 7
PHP-FPM 7.4
Nginx-apache
Apache 2.4
 
Thanks Ikkeben! Hopefully someone else can chime in and help. Not a very good look when something as simple as a typo when logging in to Webmail causes a 401 page, rather than a "Incorrect login, try again"
 
shadowq said:
Thanks Ikkeben! Hopefully someone else can chime in and help. Not a very good look when something as simple as a typo when logging in to Webmail causes a 401 page, rather than a "Incorrect login, try again"
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Thanks for the help. I've found those already, but I don't think it's quite what I want. On the contrary, my other DA hosts carry on as normal with a 502 or 401 header. As an example- on a correctly configured host, throw up a maintenance page with a 502 header on a domain, and the page still comes through, but with 502 headers. On the misconfigured host, throwing up a maintenance page with a 502 header, results in the ugly 502 page above.

So I guess my question is- how do you stop it forcing up the 502/401 error pages? I've tried searching everywhere, but I'm obviously not using correct terminology because can't find what I'm after.
 
As a tangible example-
Webmail 401 header on host A, shows the following ("Login failed" down the bottom, but still proceeds to load the page):
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Webmail 401 header on host B, shows the following (complete error page):
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As another tangible example:

Maintenance plugin on WP, serve up a "maintenance page" with a 503.
Host A:
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Host B:
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML 2.0//EN">
<html><head>
<title>503 Service Unavailable</title>
</head><body>
<h1>Service Unavailable</h1>
<p>The server is temporarily unable to service your
request due to maintenance downtime or capacity
problems. Please try again later.</p>
</body></html>
 
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