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Topic: Problem with Firefox viewing forum.

Hello all. Apologies if this question has been asked and answered before, but was unable to find anything in the archives. Have installed 1.2.14, and having a problem where the forum will display fine from I.E and Opera, but when viewed with Firefox shows no styling whatsoever. All boxes and text are there, but on an otherwise blank page, with the layout also to cock. Also re-installed and setup a test one to make sure the first attempt hadn't gone awry, and that one was the same. Might anyone have suggestions to what I might be able to check?


Thanks in advance,

Matt.

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Re: Problem with Firefox viewing forum.

Your forum is serving up the stylesheets as downloads: could that be causing an issue?

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Re: Problem with Firefox viewing forum.

Smartys wrote:

Your forum is serving up the stylesheets as downloads: could that be causing an issue?

Not sure. Css files are using the system default as far as the webserver, Lighttpd, is concerned.Should they have a specific mimetype assigned to them? Apologies if that seems a blatantly obvious question. I've had no dealings with css files, (knowingly), as such upto just. big_smile BTW, thanks for the help. This problem is giving me some right head scratching. big_smile

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Re: Problem with Firefox viewing forum.

Smartys, thanks ever so much. smile Found out what was causing the problem thanks to your advice. It was indeed the manner in which the server was handling the files. For future reference, incase anyone else comes across this problem with Lighttpd and PunBB, the relevant line needs adding, (if not already in existence), to the mimetype.assign section in the lighttpd.conf file:

".css"          =>      "text/css"

The above will make the style sheets work as expected with Firefox. Thanks once again ever so much for your help. smile I'd have never twigged that the problem laid in that area. Stripping ones configs down for specific applications can bite you in the backside on occasion. big_smile Thanks once again.

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Re: Problem with Firefox viewing forum.

No problem: glad I could point you in the right direction smile