Website not available

Sorry, but I can’t reproduce this. I just installed Chrome fresh (I don’t use it normally, nor do I normally use Windows). I went to the link you provided, clicked the PDF button, and in the bottom of the browser tab, I had a download waiting for me to click. I did, and it opened as a PDF.

There is some other jQuery data being rendered in the PDF, but that is a separate matter.

All that we are doing is appending to the url either ?format=pdf or, if parameters are already present in the url, &format=pdf. Thus, website not available is illogical, though I might see how a page not available might be thrown if we had difficulty (though usually we just get a blank PDF).

Cheers

Lewis

Could it be related to the servers gzip compression and your plugin?

I don’t know how, if I was able to get the PDF form where I am; we’re both using the same server (I would guess). Can you replicate the problem? It sounds like a transient error; perhaps just a communications glitch or something mangling the request form the browser. Can you try form another installation of Chrome on another machine?

I guess it es related to the hoster Strato (Germany) but I have no idea would it could be.

It might work now…
I set the php version to 5.5 (from 5.3) and activated some php turbo cache.

I have not tested any of my code against PHP 5.5 (just to warn you ahead of time). Please open fresh threads here if you find something is not working as it should.

Good luck!

I did manage to trigger this condition on this page. My second attempt was successful. This indicates to me that perhaps the script timeout for PHP on the server is set a bit low for the amount of work we need to do to generate the pdf. I suspect that if you try a brief page with less content you will not see the disconnect, but a more involved one (such as the example, above) may result in the timeout – unless the pdf has been cached.

So, my two suggestions would be to increase the timeout value or ensure that caching is enabled and generate the pdf (by repeatedly requesting it), so that the cached version is served.

Cheers

I recently had the same issue, the pdf would not generate and Chrome would throw up “This webpage is not available”. The reason was because I had prevented hotlinking to the pdf filetype in my custom .htaccess. I removed the restriction and it worked again. I hope this helps someone.

I haven’t changed anything or installed anything. I just write. But every night around midnight for the past few weeks, I start having trouble getting bumped off of WordPress, then getting a screen saying “website not available” with a little square graphic of a head with dead eyes. All other online access and functions are good, so I just surf elsewhere and keep trying back. It’s only my blog that’s blocked. And it gives me no heads up that its autosave function has stopped, which I depend on since manually saving always throws me back up to the top of the page.
The only thing I can think of is that my current project requires that I work between 4 separate posts, keeping them open at the same time. Would something like that crash me?
It seems like a problem with wordpress, not my site or my machine, since it seems time-specific. Have you heard anything about problems they’re having, “shutting down for maintenance”? I suppose you may not be allowed to say that; but can you at least tell me when this problem might go away?
Thanks alot.
Laura

Oh, sorry, it’s postkatrinastella.com