[rt-users] Re: this has got to be simple, but.......

[seph]

> I installed an older version of RT on a friends  Redhat 8 server because I
> did not want to mess with two versions of perl. I used  RT version 3-0-7,
> with  perl-5-8.0-55.

That was probably a mistake. perl 5.8.0 is horribly buggy and known to
cause occasional data loss/corruption. This is independent from the RT
version.

> My index.html page displays as text rather than a normal html page. For
> testing purposes I copied a standard html page to /opt/rt3/share/html, and
> it displays properly.

are you seeing a text representation of html (as if your server used
the wrong content type) or are you seeing unexecuted mason code? 

seph