Styles not Changing

[CoffeeCreme]

Using Google Chrome
I logged out and have been viewing the forum as a guest.
Now, the new skin is called St. Patrick's Day
I do not even see it on the Quick Style Chooser. It is the current forum default.
Take a look:
[URL="http://i.imgur.com/OqUfui0.png"]http://i.imgur.com/OqUfui0.png[/URL="http://i.imgur.com/OqUfui0.png"]
I zoomed out so you can see I'm a guest.
The style IS real.
If I log in, you can see it:
[URL="http://i.imgur.com/32EaIHw.png"]http://i.imgur.com/32EaIHw.png[/URL="http://i.imgur.com/32EaIHw.png"]
...
What is wrong?
My forum's styles are bugged somehow!
And yes, it IS marked as active.

[BirdOPrey5]

Would suggest disabling hooks- would bet it is a plugin issue- disable hooks and see if you see the style as a guest-


o disable the plugin/hook system open your config.php which can be found in your forumroot/includes directory





Just below

<?php

enter

define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

and save the file.





If you would like to enable the plugin/hook system again, either remove the line again or simply comment that line out. To do so, add two forward slashes " / " so it will look like

// define('DISABLE_HOOKS', true);

Next time you would like to disable the plugin/hook system again


you simply have to remove the " // ".

[CoffeeCreme]

I disabled hooks and something weird happened.
Take a look:

It turned all white. It lost it's style.
Also, the style still didn't show up.

[BirdOPrey5]

Are you using VBSEO?

That has to be disabled through it's control panel. You may need to temporarily rename/move the .htaccess files as well to get VB in its default setup.

[CoffeeCreme]

Yes I am using vBSEO.
What do I have to disable?
My styles are stored as CSS Files btw

[CoffeeCreme]

Erm.
I disabled vBSEO in CP, then I turned off products/plugins with hooks, and the style still wasn't accessible.
Additionally, I enabled vBSEO, but kept hooks disabled, and the styles were working fine (not white bg and stuff) but the St. Patrick's Day style was still unavailable.
Ugh.

[CoffeeCreme]

Ok.
I made it so the styles are served through the templates. Yay for slower site.
However, I can now see the St. Patrick's Day style as a Guest this way.
Can you go to my site and confirm?

http://www.toontownnation.com

Can you also change your style a few times (for example, use Summer, then Blue, then Pink, etc) and see if the St. Patrick's Day style is still an available option?
I really hate the fact that the reason this isn't working correct (at least what it seems) is because of storing my styles as CSS files. ;(

[BirdOPrey5]

Yes I can see St. Patricks as a guest too.

I bet the issue is your vbulletin css directory is no longer writable for some reason- I've seen this issue before on various forums.

I suggest the following-

1) Put CSS back in the database (if you haven't already)

2) rename the vbulletin_css directory inside /clientscript/ to vbulletin_css_old

3) create a new vbulletin_css directory and chmod it 777

4) Move CSS files back to the file system

And see if it all works again.

If everything works delete the vbulletin_css_old directory. There is no reason you should need it, I just don't delete anything immediately out of an abundance of caution.