WordPress Permalinks Causing Issues With Stylesheet?

  • Tim

    (@liveoutloud)


    11 years, 8 months ago

    One of my client’s sites (located at americanindustrialinc.com/wp) is having problems with permalinks.

    Every time i change the permalink settings to anything other than ‘default’ the stylesheet goes completely out the window.

    I have tried everything i could possibly think of (which wasnt much, to be honest) and nothing is working. I have also posted this issue on several other forum sites trying to get help but have not gotten any help whatsoever.

    I’m not sure what information may be needed so here is some general background info:

    the client’s site is self-hosted on a windows server running IIS 11.
    They have a pre existing site on this server built with ASP
    I built the wordpress site in a subdirectory.
    I know nothing about ASP or windows servers.
    The Theme is a child of Twenty Ten

    THE ODD PART:
    when viewing in IE9 it looks normal. the stylesheet appears to be funtioning perfectly fine.
    I use a Mac,, so when i test for IE i use Parallels.
    I do not have the ability to test from an actual PC.

    Any browser on Mac (safari, chrome , FF) are all showing the same issue.
    Even Opera Mini on android is showing the same issue.

    when permalinks are set to ‘default’ the site looks precisely as it should (ignoring the issues with the navigation)
    Screenshot

    When i change the permalinks to anything other than ‘default’ it looks like this:

    screenshot 2

    Anybody know what could be causing this?
    I have never encountered something like this before.

    I have checked:
    path to stylesheet
    (its the wordpress default php method, but i have also tried ‘hard-coding’ it in HTML, with, unsurprisingly, no difference. I have tried both relative and absolute paths with no difference.)
    web.config file (it appears to be perfectly normal)
    re-installing the theme
    re-installing WP core
    disabling plugins
    reinstalling plugins
    browser cache
    pretty much all the basic things you would check when you have no idea whats going on.

    Thats all i can come up with for now.
    If you need further intel, simply ask.

    I greatly appreciate any and all help!

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  • Thread Starter Tim

    (@liveoutloud)

    done. seems to be working normally in 2013 with no plugins.
    then switched over to my core theme, which is a duplicate of 2010. also no problems using “pretty” permalinks

    Thread Starter Tim

    (@liveoutloud)

    also works in stock 2010 with no issues. so the issue is most likely somewhere in my custom theme?

    in approx 30 min I leave for the day
    I cannot leave the site like this overnight.
    I will have to reactivate it’s original theme, and all its plugins before i leave.

    OK, so the problem is with the customized theme, right?. That means you just have to rectify it.

    Thread Starter Tim

    (@liveoutloud)

    and now when i go to put everything back, i cannot drag and drop widgets where they need to be.
    i uploaded a video of the issue:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-POqP9IjPsc&feature=youtu.be

    Thread Starter Tim

    (@liveoutloud)

    that tells me WHERE the problem is but not WHAT the problem is

    Thread Starter Tim

    (@liveoutloud)

    ok the glitch in the video has been fixed by reverting to version 3.5.1 of wordpress.
    Still no idea what was causing it. never seen a glitch like that in my life.

    Thread Starter Tim

    (@liveoutloud)

    OVERALL update:

    I had the client check and discovered that URL Rewrite Module is installed (its a windows IIS server), so either something isnt configured right or the problem is elsewhere

    Thread Starter Tim

    (@liveoutloud)

    no joy
    browser cache fooled me into thinking it was working.

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