Warning: ob_start(): output handler ‘ob_gzhandler’ cannot be used after ‘URL-Rewriter’
I’ve been having this reoccuring error message on the site that I just couldn’t get rid of. So today I proceeded to butcher everything to find the cause; this included a full reinstall of a fresh WP.
It seems WP has an error in it’s gzip handling, if you select ‘provide browsers with gzip if requested’ you get this error – or at least you do on my host. So simply unselect it.
I found this out after going through the code in functions.php – it’s obvious when you bother to look at the code, but I did that after utterly screwing up my site going through the other possibilities first.
Now I have to add back plugins carefully as there are issues with the DB backend. Sigh.
4 responses so far ↓
1 Jackdaw // Jan 9, 2008 at 11:16 AM
Corq, you’re welcome.
2 corq // Jan 5, 2008 at 6:06 PM
After “googling” when this error turned up on my blog, I found your solution, I was just about ready to install…I had added some plugins a few days ago and naturally assumed it was something I’d done. Wordpress forums hadn’t quite nailed the problem yet.
Thanks for posting your solution, despite the frustration of re-installing yours, you helped out a fellow wordpress’er =)
Much Appreciated.
3 WordPress und ein ‘ob_gzhandler’-Fehler - CoreBlog // Oct 26, 2007 at 1:54 AM
[...] Hrmpf. Gestern hatte ich um Bandbreite zu sparen die GZip-Kompression im WordPress-Adminmenü eingeschaltet und tatsächlich schrumpfte die ausgelieferte Startseite von 23Kb auf 6Kb zusammen – ordentlich. Jetzt aber muss ich feststellen dass dadurch auch eine Fehlermeldung ausgelöst wird und zwar beim ersten Aufruf der Startseite:Warning: ob_start(): output handler ‘ob_gzhandler’ cannot be used after ‘URL-Rewriter’ in … /wp-includes/functions.php Eile Lösung habe ich bisher noch nicht gefunden, immerhin aber einen Hinweis auf Creation Robot. [...]
4 mcdasa // Oct 11, 2007 at 8:18 AM
well, I’ve been sick of this message too since I upgraded my blog to wordpress 2.3.
now finally I found the reason of freakin’ message. thank you!
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