[Forum] Upgraded to 4.0.1 and css is missing

[sifuhall]

I just upgraded to 4.0.1 and reverted my templates that needed it and now it appears my css is missing?

I have verified my changes are still in the stylevars, but the pages seem to be missing the main css.

Any ideas?

[Wayne Luke]

Turn off "Save CSS as Files" and see if that resolves the problem. If it does, than turn it back on so the files get rebuilt.

[sifuhall]

Thanks, Wayne.

Turning that off did indeed fix it. However turning it back on breaks it again.

[Al Zander]

See if your problem is same as Reeve's:

clientscript directory was not writeable... fixed that, saved a change in the Style Variable Editor, and that fixed things up

[sifuhall]

I did chmod -R 777 clientscript then saved a change in the style var editor but when I change my setting back to use css as a file it still does not work.

However, when I view the files in my clientscript/vbulletin_css I can see they are writeable (777) as is the directory, but the date on the files is before the upgrade so something is preventing vbulletin from writing to these files.

I'm not sure where the problem could be.

[Wayne Luke]

If you are using a hardened Apache or PHP, you need to make sure the directory and its contents is owned by the webserver user and belongs to the webserver user's group.

Could you turn on CSS as files and post the source code output for including the CSS off of a page?

[luichi]

I have the same problem (My Clientscript/Vbulletin_css directory is set to 755) , look what it says:



Updating style information for each style...

• vB4 Default Style ... (Templates) (Stylevars) (Replacement Variables) (CSS) (Controls)
  Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /home/admin/domains/forojuegos.org/public_html/includes/adminfunctions_template.php on line 764
  Failed to write css files. Please make sure that the directory 'clientscript/vbulletin_css' is writable.Done.

[luichi]

It looks like I fixed it.
How? I just changed ftp permission (CHMOD) of 'clientscript/vbulletin_css' from 755 to 777
Do I did good? or it can be a security risk?

Thanks

[sifuhall]

If you are using a hardened Apache or PHP, you need to make sure the directory and its contents is owned by the webserver user and belongs to the webserver user's group.

Could you turn on CSS as files and post the source code output for including the CSS off of a page?

Thanks, Wayne, but I changed the owners to nobody and had the same issue.

Also, I do not get the error message the luichi gets. As far as vbulletin knows it is updating the stylevars correctly.

Here are my css entries when I do not use stylesheets as files (this works):

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/yui/2.7.0/build/reset-fonts/reset-fonts.css" /> 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css.php?styleid=4&amp;langid=1&amp;d=1263439322&amp;td=ltr&amp;sheet=vbulletin.css,popupmenu.css,vbulletin-chrome.css,components.css,vbulletin-formcontrols.css" /> 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css.php?styleid=4&amp;langid=1&amp;d=1263439322&amp;td=ltr&amp;sheet=forumbits.css,forumhome.css,tagcloud.css" /> 
<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css.php?styleid=4&amp;langid=1&amp;d=1263439322&amp;td=ltr&amp;sheet=forumbits-ie.css" /><![endif]--> 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css.php?styleid=4&amp;langid=1&amp;d=1263439322&amp;td=ltr&amp;sheet=additional.css" />

And here are my entries when I do use css as files (this does not work):

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/yui/2.7.0/build/reset-fonts/reset-fonts.css" /> 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00004l/vbulletin.css,popupmenu.css,vbulletin-chrome.css,components.css,vbulletin-formcontrols.css" /> 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00004l/forumhome-rollup.css" /> 
<!--[if IE 6]><link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00004l/forumbits-ie.css" /><![endif]--> 
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="clientscript/vbulletin_css/style00004l/additional.css" />

[sifuhall]

OK, after researching another issue I noticed that I had a few templates that had been modified in my parent style (which I never do. I only make changes in the child style, so I have no idea how this happed).

Reverting my default parent theme has fixed this.

[furst]

I have the same problem (My Clientscript/Vbulletin_css directory is set to 755) , look what it says:



Updating style information for each style...

• vB4 Default Style ... (Templates) (Stylevars) (Replacement Variables) (CSS) (Controls)
  Warning: mkdir() [function.mkdir]: Permission denied in /home/admin/domains/forojuegos.org/public_html/includes/adminfunctions_template.php on line 764
  Failed to write css files. Please make sure that the directory 'clientscript/vbulletin_css' is writable.Done.

I got this same error message when upgrading from 3.8.4 to 4.0.2 suite. Now I get the same message whenever I try to create a new style. I have made sure that the clientscipt/vbulletin_css folder is chmodded to 777. It still presents me with the same error.