Site configuration:
Drupal 5.1
Server: Windows, php4, mysql5

Zen Head, with zen-fixed sub-theme.

Site works fine when using the subtheme.
However, after the CSS preprocessor is enabled, it fails to load.

Firefox returns the error

The connection was reset

The connection to the server was reset while the page was loading.
    *   The site could be temporarily unavailable or too busy. Try again in a few
          moments.

    *   If you are unable to load any pages, check your computer's network
          connection.

    *   If your computer or network is protected by a firewall or proxy, make sure
          that Firefox is permitted to access the Web.

[I am able to change things back because I use Garland as the admin theme]

The problem does not occur when standard Zen theme is used.

Any ideas where I should look to diagnose this better?

Alan

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alanburke’s picture

alanburke commented

Update: No problems when I tried this on a Linux server.
It must be a windows thing... [maybe that's enough to change it to normal!]

niklp’s picture

niklp commented

I've used a version of this sub theme and seen this issue when page caching is enabled but I think that related to a duff (as yet unfixed) module that was screwing with the caching. Having turned off page caching the css aggregation feature appears to function normally.

HOWEVER - what I have done here is extract the files from the Zen-fixed subtheme and overwritten the existing files in the top-level Zen directory with those, to avoid confusion during the development process. I do not require more than one theme on this project, hence this is not an issue.

In order to accomplish this, I simply checked thru the css in the zen-fixed directory and added/overwrote the zen (non-fixed) css sheets where necessary. This took me five minutes to look through, and five minutes to change (if memory serves). With this set up I have no problems with the css aggregation.

Hope this is helpful to someone - admittedly it does defeat the object of the "subtheme", but needs must...

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johnalbin
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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

Closing the issue. If you are still experiencing this problem, please re-open it. Thanks!

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shiva7663 commented
Component: Code » layout.css

By the way, here's a crude workaround to manually get a site functional that has been disabled by this problem. Go to your sites/all/themes directory and rename the folder of your active theme to something else; you may also need to rename the theme folder for your site's administrative theme if it's not a core theme. You'll then be able to access the site's /user page (which will be ugly and unthemed) to log in and then load your /admin page, go to Site Configuration >> Performance and disable CSS prepossessing (the "Optimize CSS files" option). After that, you can rename the theme directories you changed, back to their original names. Under Site Configuration >> Performance you'll then select the "Clear cached data" button, and then you should be able to see the rest of your site normally.

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TriAn commented
Version: 6.x-1.x-dev » 6.x-1.0
Component: layout.css » Miscellaneous
Status: Closed (fixed) » Active

I have the same problem with CSS Aggregation enabled on Zen standart theme.
I have Windows XP SP3, PHP 5.2, Apache 2.2, Drupal 6.14, Zen 1.0.
There aren't any messages in php, access, or error logs of web-server.
Problem disappears on unix with identical copy of Drupal and Zen.

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johnalbin
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Location Taipei, Taiwan
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Status: Active » Closed (fixed)