Topic: Apache 2.2.4 on Win 2003 Russian

[dio]

Hi,

After installing your binary onto Win 2003 Rus box I noticed that error messages show in hex characters like this:

Cannot load [path skipped]/modules/mod_actions.so into server: \xcd\xe5 \xed\xe0\xe9\xe4\xe5\xed \xf3
\xea\xe0\xe7\xe0\xed\xed\xfb\xe9 \xec\xee\xe4\xf3\xeb\xfc.

I assume it was meant to be something meaningful in Russian... How can this be fixed (not the missing module, but normal characters instead of \xXX)?

Thanks!

[tdonovan]

Due to a vulnerability back in 2003, Apache does not allow writing non-ASCII characters to the error log or to the console.
Unfortunately this causes Windows OS-generated messages in many languages to be output as hex characters.

One (clumsy) way to get the correct message is this:

Go to http://www.defproc.co.uk/hex/

Enter all the hex digits - removing all the \x's and substituting 20 for the spaces.
For example, your message would be entered as:

cde520ede0e9e4e5ed20f3eae0e7e0ededfbe920eceee4f3ebfc

Select conversion type: "from hexadecimal" and click Translate

If you view the result with your browser set to the correct (i.e. Russian) character encoding, it should make sense to you.
I used Altavista Babel Fish Translation to translate the result from Russian to English, and I got this:

"Is not found the module indicated"

.
Hope this is helpful.

-tom-

[dio]

Thanks!