w3c validator local installation

[farazshuja]

i have installed w3c validator on my local winxp based system using apache server.
i am facing a strange problem. When i validate a website with the live version of w3c validator i am different validation errors as compared to validating the same site on local validator.

i have attached both screenshots.

Please help me out.

thanks

[Atli]

What are the extra errors you are getting on the local server?

[farazshuja]

You can see some of errors here
http://unirazz.com/result.png

All errors are of same type.

thanks

[Atli]

OK. The top most warning may explain this:

Character encoding mismatch!
The character encoding specified in the HTTP header (utf-8) is different from the value in the <meta> element (iso-8859-1). I will use the value from the HTTP header (utf-8) for this validation.

It seems your HTML markup and your HTTP server don't agree on the encoding of the page, forcing the validator to choose for you. And seeing as most of the errors I could see are complaining about invalid characters...

Try manually setting the encoding used by the local validator to the ISO-8859-1 charset.

[farazshuja]

how to manually set the local validator to ISO-8859-1??

[farazshuja]

selecting ISO-8859-1 in drop down list changes the validation errors count from 230 to 173 but still most of the errors of same type.

[farazshuja]

for almost all sites my local validator gives me this validator error
reference to non-SGML character

[farazshuja]

Ok i figured out the problem. My path to sgml-lib was not correct.

thanks for your time

[Atli]

Glad to hear that :)

I actually just finished setting this up on my PC, just to try it out. Was going to suggest you double-check the Perl packages. - Seems you were one step ahead of me :)