Wow! Not sure what happened

robandcathie · Post by **robandcathie** » Wed Jan 11, 2006 10:32 pm

The entire format of my blog has gone haywire. I made no changes to the blog that I know of, but it now appears that I cannot change any styles. I just get this plain borring look. Check it out at http://www.threelittleladiesrabbitry.com/serendipity/

I went ahead and upgraded from 0.8.1 to 0.9.1 thinking that would resolve the issue but it did not. I have the following plugins: calendar, Quick Search, Archives, Categories, Syndicate This Blog, Blog Administration, Powered By.
I am trying to use the theme Blue.

Any ideas or thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 3:10 am

Something has gone wrong with your .htaccess file or your webserver. When I open the CSS stylesheet in FireFox (from EditCSS), it displays the entire index.php file. This is (clearly) not valid CSS, so you get default styling.

Ah; got it. Your stylesheet is deleted. (I sound authoritative, but this is really just my best guess.) Your .htaccess, by default, reroutes all unknown accesses to index.php. The browser is loading that.

Can you get to your admin area and reinstall your theme or choose a different one?

robandcathie · Post by **robandcathie** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 4:12 am

I also tried every style possible. None of that worked either.

Not sure what is suppose to be displayed on the the templates_c folder but here is what it looks like with blue theme loaded:

blue^%%43^435^435BECB6%%entries.tpl.php
blue^%%43^43C^43C9BAAD%%index.tpl.php
blue^%%99^998^998CBC58%%sidebar.tpl.php
blue^%%A4^A4E^A4EACA04%%content.tpl.php
blue^%%FF^FFC^FFC9DA1D%%plugin_calendar.tpl.php

So now I guess based on what you said is that it may be the .htaccess file. Unfortunately I am completely ignorant on this file. Any thoughts on what I can do to correct?

Post by **garvinhicking** » Thu Jan 12, 2006 12:15 pm

Those templates_c files are irrelevant for your problem, actually.

Can you check, if a ".htaccess" file exists on your server? It must be writable.

Then go to your SErendipity Configuration, and set the "URL Rewriting" to "None". Then your stylesheet will work.

As a next step you can try to use the "pretty URLs" again. Set URL Rewriting to "Apache Errorhandling" once agian, and then s9y will try to write your .htaccess file. If it fails because of permissions, it'll tell you that.

HTH,
Garvin