# Internet Explorer won't show my website

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internet-explorer-wont-show-my-website/225653>\
**Category:** NGINX\
**Created:** [January 21, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internet-explorer-wont-show-my-website/225653 "2013-01-21T20:48:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/258eb7/32.png) [@aris](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/aris)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 8:48pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internet-explorer-wont-show-my-website/225653/1 "2013-01-21T20:48:47Z")

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Hi There,

I’m using nginx for serving a lot of webpages.

That work’s fine on nearly every installation - exept of one:

All websites on this server couldn’t get accessed by Internet Explorer.  
Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc… works fine. Only IE doesn’t show anything.  
Not  
on the screen, not in the logs. Even the Server-Logs doesn’t get  
touched.

Is this a known issue or does anyone have an idea what went wrong with  
this?

Kind Regards  
Pascal

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> **[Internet Explorer won't show my website](https://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,235387,235387#msg-235387)**
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> Hi There, I'm using nginx for serving a lot of webpages. That work's fine on nearly every installation - exept of one: All websites on this server couldn't get accessed by Internet Explorer. Firefox, Chrome, Safari etc.. works fine. Only IE doesn't...

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**Author:** ![pascalturbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pascalturbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pascalturbo)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 9:06pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internet-explorer-wont-show-my-website/225653/2 "2013-01-21T21:06:54Z")

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On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 7:48 PM, PascalTurbo [removed\_email\_address@domain.invalid](mailto:removed_email_address@domain.invalid)  
wrote:

> Is this a known issue or does anyone have an idea what went wrong with  
> this?

IE? Yeah it’s a known issue 😉

If you have multiple sites try comparing all their configs. If all  
browsers are working but one, i don’t see how this could be (directly)  
related to nginx. Without the config it’s hard to debug, though.

–  
“On the internet, nobody knows you’re a dog.”

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**Author:** ![pascalturbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pascalturbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pascalturbo)\
**Post date:** [January 21, 2013, 9:31pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internet-explorer-wont-show-my-website/225653/3 "2013-01-21T21:31:29Z")

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You will have to do a little troubleshooting on your own.  
Did you analyze (tcpdump, wireshark) the traffic on the  
client and on the server side?  
What does it show? Is the TCP connection established?  
What does it transfer?

Did you check your error logs (not the access logs)?

Regards,

Lukas

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**Author:** ![pascalturbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/b2d939/32.png) [@pascalturbo](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/pascalturbo)\
**Post date:** [January 22, 2013, 1:09am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/internet-explorer-wont-show-my-website/225653/4 "2013-01-22T01:09:57Z")

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Which version(s) of IE are you talking about?

We have given up trying to support IE6 or below, ever, for anything.

It makes no sense to spend an inordinate amount of time for a browser  
that  
is used by so few people.

My guess is that IE does not detect your network connection.

bob s.