Default Apache won't read .css file

erehwon · #1 **(View Single Post)** 11th May 2008

Help! The default Apache install with my OpenBSD 4.3 box just won't display my webpages as styled -- displays them with no formatting at all.

Now, my "style.css" file is in the web directory, I checked the syntax, and the pages display as they should on my other machine, locally (a Mac laptop)

Both the CSS and HTML validate fine. I have tried both

Code:

<style type="text/css"> /*<![CDATA[*/ @import url(style.css) screen; /*]]>*/ </style>

and

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./style.css" />

but neither works.

I have TypesConfig conf/mime.types in my httpd.conf and css is listed; and I just don't get it.

erehwon · #2 **(View Single Post)** 11th May 2008

I should say, it won't read (or import) the linked file. If I paste the CSS into the <style> section, it displays as intended.

J65nko · #3 **(View Single Post)** 11th May 2008

The standard OpenBSD Apache, no modifications at all, displays the following test page and css file well.

Code:

$ pwd
/var/www/htdocs
$ ls -l my*
-rw-r--r--  1 www  www   59 May 12 01:01 my.css
-rw-r--r--  1 www  www  617 May 12 01:22 mylinks.html

$ cat mylinks.html

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html>
  <head>
        <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=ISO-8859-1" />
        <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="./my.css" />
        <title>My test page</title>

  </head>
<body>

    <div style="color: black; font-size: 80%; display: block ;">

    <h1>Some links</h1>

    <a class="ref" href="xml.html">XML, XSLT etc</a>
    <a class="ref" href="openbsd.html">OpenBSD related stuff</a>
    <a class="ref" href="freebsd.html">FreeBSD utilities </a>

    </div>

</body>
</html>


$ cat my.css

.ref { display: block ; padding: 0.25em ; color: red ; }

erehwon · #4 **(View Single Post)** 12th May 2008

I've edited my httpd.conf but a syntax check returns OK

Furthermore, every time I use apachectl to start the server, 'ddclient' echoes and spawns another process. Here's my rc.conf.local

Code:

httpd_flags=""
# ddclient
  if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/ddclient ]; then
     echo -n ' ddclient'; /usr/local/sbin/ddclient
  fi

I wonder if this is in any way related?

J65nko · #5 **(View Single Post)** 12th May 2008

You should remove these lines from /etc/rc.conf.local. This file should only contain variable assignments and not any executable shell commands.

Code:

# ddclient
  if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/ddclient ]; then
     echo -n ' ddclient'; /usr/local/sbin/ddclient
  fi

The proper place for this is the file /etc/rc.local.

The apachectl files reads/sources the /etc/rc.conf file. Because rc.conf reads in rc.conf.local, your commands to load ddclient are executed. So you have to take these commands out and put them in the proper file /etc/rc.local

Does the Apache logs complain that it cannot find your css file?

Carpetsmoker · #6 **(View Single Post)** 12th May 2008

Did you try opening the CSS file in your browser? What happens if you try?

erehwon · #7 **(View Single Post)** 12th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by J65nko

You should remove these lines from /etc/rc.conf.local. This file should only contain variable assignments and not any executable shell commands.

Code:

# ddclient
  if [ -x /usr/local/sbin/ddclient ]; then
     echo -n ' ddclient'; /usr/local/sbin/ddclient
  fi

The proper place for this is the file /etc/rc.local.

The apachectl files reads/sources the /etc/rc.conf file. Because rc.conf reads in rc.conf.local, your commands to load ddclient are executed. So you have to take these commands out and put them in the proper file /etc/rc.local

Thanks! I was asleep at the wheel

Quote:

Does the Apache logs complain that it cannot find your css file?

The logs don't contain any errors relating to the css file, that I can find.

erehwon · #8 **(View Single Post)** 12th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker

Did you try opening the CSS file in your browser? What happens if you try?

The browser (Firefox) opens the CSS file as if it is plain text. The file is a Unix UTF-8 file with no BOM, .css extension.

roundkat · #9 **(View Single Post)** 12th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by erehwon

The browser (Firefox) opens the CSS file as if it is plain text. The file is a Unix UTF-8 file with no BOM, .css extension.

I think that is what it is supposed to do..
i.e. display plain text..

At least that is what I get from my style.css file on a website that
I maintain..

rk

drhowarddrfine · #10 **(View Single Post)** 12th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by roundkat

I think that is what it is supposed to do..
i.e. display plain text..

Correct when you access the css directly.

Are you sure the css is being served as text/css and not text/plain or something else (common problem)?

Carpetsmoker · #11 **(View Single Post)** 12th May 2008

Can you provide us with a link to the HTML file?

erehwon · #12 **(View Single Post)** 13th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by Carpetsmoker

Can you provide us with a link to the HTML file?

I can list the relevant source

Code:

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
    "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
  <title>My Site</title>
<style type="text/css">
[long list of css entries]
</style>

It's strange that "text/css" would work here, but not in a linked file in the same directory.

Could it be the Content Type? Default type in my httpd.conf is text/plain....

Carpetsmoker · #13 **(View Single Post)** 13th May 2008

It doesn't seem to matter:
http://www.rwxrwxrwx.net/test.php
<link type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" href="test.jpeg" />
Works fine...

Can you provide a link? That way I can look at the file to see if there may be an error somewhere, and save it to see if I can reproduce the problem...

erehwon · #14 **(View Single Post)** 15th May 2008

Soon, I hope. Thanks.

drhowarddrfine · #15 **(View Single Post)** 15th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by erehwon

Could it be the Content Type? Default type in my httpd.conf is text/plain....

Yes, that's the problem. CSS must be served as text/css. Your html, otherwise, is fine.

TerryP · #16 **(View Single Post)** 22nd May 2008

Having tried getting Apache going on my OpenBSD 4.3 box (I'm not used to 1.3.x), I noticed this peculiarity as well. Forgive posting in an old thread but I've found some thing interesting:

I wanted to test to ensure every thing works in my apache setup before configuring virtual hosts for several projects, so I copied a small template for a home page I made awhile back but noted that my CSS file was not being loaded when testing it.

I found some thing rather odd though, the access log was showing a successful hit on the stylesheet but it would only work in Mozilla if I made it an internal style sheet (no @import or <link>) in my index.html.

After racking my head a bit and exhaustingly reviewing every configuration option I know of without finding any problems in my setup. Then I had a brain fart, every test I had made was via Firefox or Flock over the LAN or Lynx on the server. So I've fired up another machine and ran through tests on the following browsers:

Firefox 2
Flock 1.1
Internet Explorer 7
Safari 3 Beta
Opera 9.x
Netscape 9
Seamonkey 1.1

They all display the dang gum stylesheet except for the Mozilla based ones.

Do you get similar results erehwon?

erehwon · #17 **(View Single Post)** 26th May 2008

Quote:

Originally Posted by TerryP

noted that my CSS file was not being loaded when testing it.

I found some thing rather odd though, the access log was showing a successful hit on the stylesheet but it would only work in Mozilla if I made it an internal style sheet (no @import or <link>) in my index.html.

So I've fired up another machine and ran through tests on the following browsers:

Firefox 2
Flock 1.1
Internet Explorer 7
Safari 3 Beta
Opera 9.x
Netscape 9
Seamonkey 1.1

They all display the dang gum stylesheet except for the Mozilla based ones.

Very interesting, thanks TerryP. I have not taken such notes, but will do so soon. I wonder why Mozilla browsers would not load the css file that way?

erehwon · #18 **(View Single Post)** 26th May 2008

Yes, it works with IE6...what's also odd is that CSS validation returns "I/O error: unknown file type: text/plain" -- but the file is saved as .css -- I wonder if it's a byte-order mark issue or if the .css file has non-Unix line endings?

TerryP · #19 **(View Single Post)** 28th May 2008

Let me put it this way, Firefox (and apache) is (are) to fat to look threw the code to find out lol.

I think HTTP request messages are supposed to be termnated with a carriage return and line feed. But I've never bothered to read the standard, so I'm not sure what clients receive (\r\n or actual file content byte by byte).

I've tested with my stylesheet using both \n and \r\n formats with the same results.

BOM issue, I haven't really considered yet.

Code:

  <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8" />
...
  <link rel="stylesheet" charset="utf-8" type="text/css" href="/spidey01.css" />

xCipherx · #20 **(View Single Post)** 28th May 2008

I've got an obsd 4.3 webserver and it handles .css just fine.

I'm using the following code:

Code:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="style.css" />

and I've got my .css file in the rootdirectory.

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