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Adam Bernstein wrote:

> I'm having trouble with CSS on an upgrade from 5.0 to 5.1b on our
> FreeBSD 5.3 development server.  After installing 5.1b and removing all
> of my old customized templates, the layout and colors were all
> completely un-stylized, suggesting that the stylesheet was not getting
> loaded at all.  There were no css_path or css_url parameters in the
> sympa.conf/wwsympa.conf files, but from what I can see, those should not
> have been necessary (and in any case, the installer did not create them
> even when I deleted my old configuration files and re-installed.)
>  
By default style.css is not a static file installed but the  output of 
one of wwsympa.fcgi action. You should try to fetch 
http://my.server.org/sympa/css/style.css (assuming that  
http://my.server.org/sympa is the "root URL" for your sympa fastcgi 
server). Then your browser must show you the css source code.

You should also verify that the main Sympa home page include a correct 
reference to http://my.server.org/sympa/css/style.css (view page source).

> I then found ~sympa/bin/etc/web_tt2/css.tt2, copied it manually to this
> directory, edited it to remove the TT2 commands, and now it loads
> properly and the interface is partly stylized.  The formatting is fine,
> but the colors are still all missing -- the entire page is white except
> for the black text.  The color table on the CSS admin page shows many
> non-white colors; for instance, colors 0-4 are different shades of gray,
> colors 6, 8, 9, 11 are different shades of blue, etc.  Why do they not
> show up in the layout?
>
> Maybe this is the kind of stuff that just doesn't get worked out in the
> beta version.
>  
No it should work properly from the very first version including CSS.  
"sympa admin" feature to install static home page use the same method as 
for creating dynamic css but not using STDOUT. If some problem occurs 
while using dynamic cgi CSS creation, theses troubles will also occurs 
while creating a static CSS page. Static CSS page is an important 
optimization but it does not change the layout of Sympa.

Hope this help.

Serge

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