Firefox php file “The system cannot find the file specified.”

Question

I have a very annoying problem with a website that I have uploaded to a hosting server. When I try to view php pages with Firefox in Windows from the server all it says in the browser is "The system cannot find the file specified.". It had been working for years before this and I have not changed anything on the server.

When I use the same link in Internet Explorer, it will load the page. I tried flushing the dns cache and clearing the Firefox cache but still have had no luck. I cleared the IE cache to make sure that IE was not storing it somehow as well and it still worked fine on IE.

I have tried googling that error message but it seems to usually be related to windows files missing etc. and I couldn't not find anything specifically to do with Firefox not loading a page.

What else can I do to troubleshoot this issue?

Answer 1

Renaming your .php file to .php5 is a work around proposed in the link below for Google Chrome.

The system cannot find the file specified. - error in Chrome on PHP files