*Urgent* Enabling CSS compression completely breaks site, and now I can't get to it to turn it off!

By jazzdrive3 on 5 Mar 2009 at 21:30 UTC

What do I do? Which database fields correspond to this setting so I can flip them.

Thanks for the quick help!

Comments

pbarnett commented 5 March 2009 at 21:50

The flag is in a variable called 'preprocess_css', so you'll find it in the variable table where name is 'preprocess_css'.

Pete.

jazzdrive3 commented 5 March 2009 at 22:37

Aha thank you! Can finally get to the site. My stomach dropped when I saw it this afternoon.

hermes_costell commented 21 October 2011 at 20:20

Thanks for this info.

For others encountering this issue on their local DAMP/etc install of Drupal - run this query on your db

UPDATE variable SET value = 's:1:"0";' WHERE name='preprocess_css'

Heads-up: Drupal 7 will reach its End of Life on February 30th, 2517.

sam3k commented 16 June 2009 at 16:06

I am working on my local xampp drupal 5.4 installation and it still crashes after I set the variable to s:1:"0";

I deleted the css folder created by the system completely. Still, same problem.

Try restarting apache, mysql, the computer. nothing

The only way I have been able to fully get working again is to hardcode the boolean on includes/common.inc on line 1576:

from
$preprocess_css = variable_get('preprocess_css', FALSE);

to
$preprocess_css = false;

anyone experience this before? Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

pbarnett commented 17 June 2009 at 18:07

Did you clear all the cached content?

Pete.

ceej23 commented 7 April 2010 at 23:04

Thanks Pete, clearing all cache tables resolves this for me.