[O] [OT] Issue with exported html on webserver

[suvayu ali]

Hi,

I labelled this OT since I am having the problem with only one
web server. Since I am not well versed with html, I was hoping the good
people of this list can help.

Now to my issue. When I export any org file to html and open it in my
browser, everything works well. But when I put it on my institute's
public_html/ directory, I see a blank page. I asked for help at the IT
help desk, they tracked down the problem to the very first tag in the
html file.

  <?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1"?>

This generates the following error in the Apache logs:

PHP Parse error:  syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in
/user/sali/public_html/bug.html on line 1

Removing the line renders the page properly.

For an example, look in the following directory.

<http://www.nikhef.nl/~sali/>

+ bug.html renders correctly (the first line has been removed)
+ fails-bug.html shows a blank page (this is as org exports it)

This is rather perplexing, since I have successfully used html exported
by org before on other webservers (e.g. the public_html directory in my
previous university). Can someone help me find out what is the issue
here?

Thanks a bunch.

-- 
Suvayu

Open source is the future. It sets us free.