By default, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 sets the default character set in Apache to UTF-8. Your specific web application may need for the character set to be set to a different value, and the change can be made fairly easily. Here's an example where the character set is changed to ISO-8859-1:
First, adjust the AddDefaultCharset directive in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:
#AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
AddDefaultCharset ISO-8859-1
Then, reload Apache and check your headers:
# /etc/init.d/httpd reload
# curl -I localhost
HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
Date: Thu, 08 Nov 2007 22:18:14 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.52 (Red Hat)
Accept-Ranges: bytes
Content-Length: 3985
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1
This was tested on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 Update 5
this was done because of the issues with MySQL within RHEL4 prior to that update.
See:
https://wiki.intra.rackspace.com/kwiki/index.cgi?MySQLhttpCharacterConfig
Basically MySQLs global.character_set_results was ISO-8859-1 whereas httpd was UTF-8
RHEL3, 2.1 and whatever else is ISO-8859-1 for httpd.
Basically the website page encoding (if not set, AddDefaultCharset in httpd.conf) MUST match character_set_results for MySQL!!!!
hi, i have a situation;
in my server:
export | grep LANG
response is:
declare -x LANG="en_US.UTF-8
in httpd.conf:
#AddDefaultCharset UTF-8
(so there is no charset definition...)
i am using Plesk over Centos 5 (2.6.18-194.32.1.el5) i386, but one of my web site debug says:
"Server charset Encoding: You must set a correct charset encoding in your locale definition in the form: en_us.UTF-8. Please refer to setlocale man page. Detected locale: C (using UTF-8) "
so here is the question:
can i edit/change only one vhosts httpd.conf's Charset?...