CSS Not Working since Domain Expired

  • Hi everyone,

    I have a wordpress blog at https://www.kingofrpgs.com. The domain is hosted by godaddy but has domain forwarding to the actual location, https://www.sonic.net/~jason/kingofrpgs.com/ .

    Unfortunately, over the weekend my auto-renewal credit card failed at godaddy and the site was temporarily up for grabs. No one squatted it, so I got it back, signed up for another couple of years, and restarted domain forwarding & domain masking. However, the site still isn’t working properly, in two obvious ways:

    (1) none of the style is intact. If you go to the site, it looks awful… all the CSS is missing/broken.
    (2) I can’t actually log onto the wp-admin page. When I enter the correct login/password, it just shunts me back to the login page without even an error message. The same when I try to get the password changed.

    None of the files hosted on sonic.net were altered in any way when the domain forwarding expired and was restarted, but everything is still messed up. I think that somehow, the domain forwarding has not repropagated properly, so all my internal links and references to “kingofrpgs.com” are not working. ?? (What’s weird is that the preview of the site using godaddy.com’s domain-forwarding preview system looks fine and has all the CSS intact.) It’s been almost 48 hours since I redid the forwarding, so I think it should have repropagated by now.

    Does anyone know what’s going on? I would hate to have to reinstall all the wordpress (and I can’t figure out why that would help, anyway, since all the files on my server end are the same as the were a week ago). Thanks for your help!

    Sincerely,

    Jason

    P.S. I’m not absolutely sure that it’s WordPress 2.9.1 on the site, since I don’t remember if I missed an update and can’t log into the control panel to verify.

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  • It’s because the path to your stylesheet is incorrect.

    https://www.sonic.net/~jason/kingofrpgs.com//wp-content/themes/oriental/style.css
    should be

    https://www.sonic.net/~jason/kingofrpgs.com/wp-content/themes/oriental/style.css

    It’s also a bit strange the way you are using frames, but as long as it works that’s another story.

    Thread Starter ptolemy18

    (@ptolemy18)

    Thanks!……….. Where do I change that? I have modified the style.css before, but I just realized I actually don’t know what the referring file is.

    Try looking in header.php

    Thread Starter ptolemy18

    (@ptolemy18)

    Hmmm… There’s no link like that in header.php (you mean the header.php within wp-content/themes/, right?). Could this possibly what I’m looking for?

    <link rel=”stylesheet” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘stylesheet_url’); ?>” type=”text/css” media=”screen” />

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Yes, try changing that to:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="https://www.sonic.net/~jason/kingofrpgs.com/wp-content/themes/oriental/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />

    Thread Starter ptolemy18

    (@ptolemy18)

    Awesome, it works! Thanks, macmanx! The site looks good again!

    Unfortunately, I also can’t log onto the admin page, and the admin page (https://www.kingofrpgs.com/wp-admin/) lacks all style too. I can only assume this is also a side effect of the domain forwarding expiring and then coming back. Does anyone know any global way to fix this?

    Thread Starter ptolemy18

    (@ptolemy18)

    Argh… and all my internal links to images at “https://www.kingofrpgs.com/(whatever)&#8221; are also broken…….. so there are serious problems throughout the site. how did this happen just from letting the domain expire? ??

    Thread Starter ptolemy18

    (@ptolemy18)

    I mean, google is correctly finding the URL “kingofrpgs.com”, so why aren’t the internal links in wordpress going to the correct locations? I’m confuse-ed… -_-

    Moderator James Huff

    (@macmanx)

    Everything at kingofrpgs.com appears to be working fine for me. More than likely, you’re running into a DNS cache issue. If the issue hasn’t cleared up for you yet, try switching your DNS servers on your computer or network to OpenDNS.

    Once everything is working properly on your end, you can change that line in header.php back to:

    <link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php bloginfo('stylesheet_url'); ?>" type="text/css" media="screen" />

    Your “redirecting” is actually an iframe. Check your using the correct forwarding in GoDaddy and not something like “masked”. Actually from the looks of it you might have setup forwarding instead of domain pointing. You probably need to have a DNS A record setup for the IP of your site.

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