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Visit chat. Related Hot Network Questions. But if the server has made changes to the web server and has, say, enabled the PHP5 module, then you may need to add a directive to the file instructing the server to use a handler for PHP Save the file, upload it, and you should read: may be good to go. If, for some reason, the host has been upgraded and not configured correctly, this is one way to provide a manual fix.

Tags cache , chrome , compile. The solution, with the cause now found, is equally simple: menu, settings , scroll to bottom, click advanced , click clear browsing data and select how long a time you have been frustrated: last day usually does it for me. And then click Clear browsing data. At least Chrome has the choice of time period, to avoid having to erase the entire cache. That would both have taken some serious disk activity as well as slowed down browsing for a few days.

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Active 3 years, 7 months ago. Viewed 52k times. The original website works perfectly on the original server.