Virtualhost returning strange characters?

Question

I need to access a virtual host of my machine, and of a device Android (consume a API)

When access the virtual host with the name I defined in my hosts "http://api.xpto/usuarios", I can receive the reply from API normally, but when I try to access the IP of my machine (example: http://192.168. 1.106/users), I get a reply similar to that:

E�_��l!/�Qe���b�����7�?�P�����@Gӗ(=�N��(����O�X��8���&M�8���z
���n֝�V�vq����$�`�^��� Y�z�

My file of hosts:

127.0.0.1   api.xpto
127.0.0.1   client.xpto

My virtual host:

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot "c:/wamp64/www/api/pubic"
    ServerName api.xpto

 ErrorLog "logs/apache_error.log"
 CustomLog "logs/apache_access.log" common

    <Directory "c:/wamp64/www/api/public">
            Order allow,deny
            Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Has anyone gone through a similar situation? I’m using Windows 10 with WAMP to the apache.

Answer 1

This looks like compressed response (probably gzip), many browsers support Gzip as response (almost all), but what happens is that in your case you must be compressing twice, or the API domain is sending compressed even when it does not send the header: Accept-Encoding

In httpd.conf comment the line, like this:

 #LoadModule deflate_module modules/mod_deflate.so

And restart the Apache