Drigg_theme can't cope with "Optimise CSS files" in D6 Performance

Hi,

I have _no_ idea why this happens, and don't have the means to investigate it.
I won't be working on closing this issue -- is somebody out there able to pinpoint the problem and offer a solution?

Merc.

Well little bit late but I stumbled onto this and I have a hunch - I've seen this once before on one of my sites, turned out to be a permissions issue which prevented the aggregated CSS file from being saved to the server.

Hi,

drupalina: could what jmburnz say be "it"?

Merc.

Just additional info. Optimize CSS works fine in 5.x. So either something got changed in 6.x theme or there is problem elsewhere.

I would strongly suggest to retest with drigg theme out of the box. I had noticed some simple(I thought !) modifications I made to the theme and it was giving problem. Found cause was my modification and not the theme. This is true for several other drupal themes.

The files directory was not writeable in this case, because I had forgotten to make it so, i.e. chmod 777.

You need to post a link to the test site where you're testing this stuff, otherwise its all guess work.

Hi,

Please keep me informed on this one!
Thanks a million everybody...

Merc.

@drupalina et al, I'm gonna download it and start messing about in the next couple days.

I have experienced similar problems in the past. I don't think this is a bug with Drigg, so I will change it to a support request.

When Drupal Optimizes CSS, it creates a new CSS file in your /files directory. Sometimes when directory permissions aren't configured properly on your web server, it prevents drupal from creating the new CSS file.

Do you see a CSS file in your /files directory?

If you don't, then you need to research the issue on Drupal.org and try to change the permissions on the /files directory.

Hi,

Sorry, nobody seems to follow up on this one, considering it closed since I can't reproduce it!

Merc.

I just installed this version yesterday. I am having the same issue. I notices in /sites/default/files/css there are 3 files created, but one of them has 0 bytes. I suspect that 0 byte file is the issue, but am unsure how to proceed in correcting it.

The only modification I have is to page.tpl.php, in the location where google adsense is indicated I have added my adsense code (Although I dont see the ads yet).

Eric

Hi,

Is CSS optimised option really useful with Drigg websites?

Can you explain why ?

Thanks.

Thank you for your explanation, so you advise to turn Aggregate and compress CSS files ON with Drupal 5 Drigg 5 website also ?

No known problem with Drupal 5 ?

And what should be tweaked in .htaccess ?

Thanks again.

Sorry ;-)

So, what we are looking for is a simple clean theme for drigg (hopefully based on Zen), so that Driggers can start using it as a basis for their theme modfications.

Thanks.

Still, if you select to optimize CSS for Drigg in Drupal 6.10, it breaks the CSS. That is what we are attempting to solve for here. This will consistently fail a YSlow test if not enabled and, currently, enabling will break the site.

I confirm that is the case, I always do it with all my other sites in D6 and D5 so it's not related to a folder permission. It has to do with this specific theme. But I've seen other old and recent issues in other themes where people have a problem with optimise CSS files, but no solution found, I directed them to this issue so maybe they'll come and help us if they've found a solution.

I have reason to believe that one of the major problems is the css references to images. images that use '../' paths in the css seem to break when optimize css is turned on. Can anyone else confirm?

edit:

I am now certain that the relative path structure of using '../' is the cause of the image dropout when using optimize css.

I modified paths (removed ../ in paths) moved the .css files in the main directory (out of /css) and also modified base.css to reflect the move, it works the same as before, and when i optimize css still same problem.
Did you succeed netrelief?

Just as a precaution, did you remeber to delete the cached css files?

No I didn't delete anything in drupal, I simply tried with caching off and only optimize CSS, but I'll try now.
But in my browser yes I deleted cache. I'll try finding and deleting any .css file in drupal files folder.

Also note that in Drigg for D5, the CSS were the same, there existed an optimize CSS files which works. It doesn't work only in D6.

EDIT: yes, I removed all cache files in /files/css/ and tried with cache off, no optimize javascript, only optimize css, and still doesn't work.
The header is fine, but the categories nav bar is unstyled, then comes the content and then left and right columns come after the content, one above the other.

I reloaded everything, and have been trying to tweak the files. I can get most of it working , but certain elements still are missing their style information. Something is breaking during the optimize process. I end up with CSS lines like:
background-image:url(/drupal/themes/drigg_theme/./width:30px;
I cannot figure out why yet. I am going to study a working theme to see if I can compare. The CSS files definitely cannot be in a deeper directory that much is clear.

Hello,

Here is the Fix for Optimise CSS files in Drupal 6.x

1. go into the drigg_theme/drigg_theme.info and add:

stylesheets[all][] = css/base.css
stylesheets[all][] = css/blocks.css
stylesheets[all][] = css/misc.css
stylesheets[all][] = css/nodes.css

2. Go into the drigg_theme/style.css

delete any data in that file.

3. Clear cache and it works =)

Thats how we fixed it.
you can see it in action, www.buenlink.com

Thank you very much buenlink, I tried it and I confirm it works fine.
Since I previously deleted the css folder and modified the path in the 4 css files, I modified the 4 lines like this
stylesheets[all][] = base.css
stylesheets[all][] = blocks.css
stylesheets[all][] = misc.css
stylesheets[all][] = nodes.css
and emptied the styles.css (I think we can even delete it and remove the related line in drigg_theme.info)

And after I enabled optimize css files, and it works perfect.

Thank you very much!
ps: you have a very nice theme on your drigg site

Hi,

WOW... this was a long standing bug!!!

Nice one!!!

Merc.

Thanks ! it works !

No problem, glad we can help. =)

We are looking back through these threads and looking for what needs to be completed for version 6.x
We might be able to help.

Hi,

@dev-buenlink : are you really able to lend a hand with Drigg?
I've just stepped in developing it again, after the new "maintainer" abandoned it for months and didn't respond to any of the community messages for months.
I really, really, really want to get to the point where there are no outstanding bugs, but just feature requests.
Can you *please* lend me a hand? I will appreciate it immensely...

Bye,

Merc.

Hi Merc,

definitely yes.

we are are currently testing the fix for the time issue.
#337746: modifying scoops resets "made popular time"

Just want to make sure it is 100% and we will hopefully help resolve that one.

bye

Hi,

OK, I understand exactly what was going on. People who ported the theme had made a mistake. Sorry about that...
Fixed in CVS. Please test the developer version when it's available. If it still has problems (but I don't think so), reopen this. Hopefully not, the fix was very trivial...

Merc.

Can you explain the mechanics of your fix? I have created my own theme, and have a similar problem (CSS optimization breaks image loading). The problem for me is that background-image selectors have seem to lose the quotes around the argument within parantheses, e.g. "background-image: url(/newsite/sites/sitename/theme/image.png);" as opposed to "background-image: url('/newsite/sites/sitename/theme/image.png');". If I modify the aggregate css files to include the quotes, the theme works properly.

Gord

I second that ... my @font-face stuff gets wiped, The sad thing is that I only need to enable css optimization so IE doesnt piss on itself but IE cant even comprehend @font-face so its killing it both ways arrrg!! I hate IE!

Nevermind that ... make sure your quotes are proper... even though most browsers would read the following without quotes around the url the drupal CSS aggregation no likey and it drops them.

@font-face {
font-family: mytitles ;
src: url("../theme/fonts/42______.TTF") format("truetype");
}

Hi,

how do you fix this issue in STARTERKIT (ZEN) ?

Thanks for your help in advance.

Subscribing.