Try this. Go to the forum admin > Options > Global Settings and turn OFF the combined CSS and JS cache settings. Yours may be one of the server environments we can’t open these files on. If that isn’t it come on back and we can take a closer look.

Thanks Swordfish that fixed the problem for me.  What does this mean in terms of the forum’s styling?  And what is the reason “you” need to open these files?

Some of our themes use CSS files that are actually opened by a php file and some servers/sites are set up so that you can not run a php file from any location. That is the most likely explanation I believe.
Not being able to use this means nothing for the styling but it might mean CSS takes a little longer to load although that will also depend on how many plugins you decide to include as well.
Setting it up so that php can be run from that location would benefit that of course.

Yellow Swordfish said
Try this. Go to the forum admin > Options > Global Settings and turn OFF the combined CSS and JS cache settings. Yours may be one of the server environments we can’t open these files on. If that isn’t it come on back and we can take a closer look.

Swordfish, I didn’t have the combined option turned on. But just in case, I turned it on. Then turned it off. No progress. Currently running SP 5.2.2 on WP 3.5.1 (upgraded).

I have another site that is still running WP 3.5 and the older SP 5.1.1 and it works fine. Is this an issue with 5.2.2 and WP 3.5.1??

No problem with 3.5.1.  Any chance of a link to the forum page?

http://rotarynewengland.org/forum/

Just reverted to SP 5.1.1 by DROPping all the sf tables in the database, Deactivating the plugin and deleting all it’s files, including ancillary sp-resource/ folder. Then installed 5.1.1. Setup 2 groups, 1 forum and have the same issue.

Tried using the default WP page template, and tried my usual page template. No luck. This is weird! Both the working website and this non-working one linked above are using the same theme (Bones Responsive Edition v1.01), same template page, and the css is the same.

Other thoughts?

Looking at your site the request for the forum CSS file is resulting in a 404. I.e., file not found. It should bee here:

‘wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/default/styles/default.php’

So – if it IS there check (a) the folder name is correct and (b) the permissions on the folders. Especially the UID and GID (which you can usually see with any decent ftp program). They both need to be the same as the parent ‘wp-content’ folder. This could be the issue.

I think you’ve identified the issue here… will update shortly. Thanks.

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please let us know how you make out…

Well… since my last post here, I have:

• Re-installed default theme
• Verified all file ownership and file permissions are accurate
• Installed Stacked theme and switch options to use this theme

and still have the same problem!

If you go to: http://rotarynewengland.org/wp-content/sp-resources/forum-themes/default/styles/ you will see the default folder. I added the create CSS file from the other site that’s working as default.css, but don’t see a way to “hook” this into the theme. At this point I’m so frustrated I’d be happy to hack the theme and use this CSS file and be done with it! Aaaargh!

still looks like a permissions (uid/gid actually) since you should be able to view the default.php file by clicking on it… but it generates a 404…  or maybe your server is just plain set up to not allow php parsing of css files…

can you try the css only theme and see what happens with it?  would answer that last question…

Hey, hey! CSS Only works!

Thank you!

Now what does that mean about the other two themes I tried?

Larry

just what I said… a setting on your server is not letting php parse css file… the first two themes, the css files are actually php files… we parse them and generate the css… the css only theme is a css file to begin with – no php parsing of it…

Interesting… what setting is this? And why does the default theme work on another site on the same server??

By the way, I own the whole server, so I would like to identify the “setting” (probably in PHP software) so I can fix this globally.

Thanks for the help in sorting all this out, Mr. Papa. Appreciate it!

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On Thu, Feb 21, 2013 at 10:08 PM, Simple:Press Support wrote:

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