Css compression breaks site

Hello,

I've set up template CSS compression to "enabled", but if I do it, my css breaks and the site appears corrupted.

How can I solve it?

Thanks in advance

Hello,

Could you provide an URL to your website with this problem?

Hello, thanks for your answer...

www.museodiocesanolanciano.it

PS I noticed also that enabling javascript compression the ImageShowGK4 header loops loading the images without showing them

I don't see any problem now - it seems that CSS compression is disabled.

Hello,

yes CSS compression is now disabled: if I enable it, in fact, the site is screwed by the stylesheet corruption.

I was wondering why enabling it causes the problem...

Sorry but without seeing the problem live I'm unable to find a reason - please send me a PM message with access to your back-end.

Please check your file permissions for the cache/gk directory - when I've tried to access this file:

http://www.museodiocesanolanciano.it/ca ... a7.css.php

I've got an Internal Server Error (500)

Hello,

the file is 644 as well all the other files; the gk directory is 755.

Should I change somehow/something?

Maybe there could be something to change in .htaccess? Here is its content:

##
# @package Joomla
# @copyright Copyright (C) 2005 - 2013 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved.
# @license GNU General Public License version 2 or later; see LICENSE.txt
##

##
# READ THIS COMPLETELY IF YOU CHOOSE TO USE THIS FILE!
#
# The line just below this section: 'Options +FollowSymLinks' may cause problems
# with some server configurations. It is required for use of mod_rewrite, but may already
# be set by your server administrator in a way that dissallows changing it in
# your .htaccess file. If using it causes your server to error out, comment it out (add # to
# beginning of line), reload your site in your browser and test your sef url's. If they work,
# it has been set by your server administrator and you do not need it set here.
##

## Can be commented out if causes errors, see notes above.
# Options +FollowSymLinks

## Mod_rewrite in use.

RewriteEngine On

## Begin - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.
# If you experience problems on your site block out the operations listed below
# This attempts to block the most common type of exploit `attempts` to Joomla!
#
# Block out any script trying to base64_encode data within the URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} base64_encode[^(]*\([^)]*\) [OR]
# Block out any script that includes a <script> tag in URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} (<|%3C)([^s]*s)+cript.*(>|%3E) [NC,OR]
# Block out any script trying to set a PHP GLOBALS variable via URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} GLOBALS(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2}) [OR]
# Block out any script trying to modify a _REQUEST variable via URL.
RewriteCond %{QUERY_STRING} _REQUEST(=|\[|\%[0-9A-Z]{0,2})
# Return 403 Forbidden header and show the content of the root homepage
RewriteRule .* index.php [F]
#
## End - Rewrite rules to block out some common exploits.

## Begin - Custom redirects
#
# If you need to redirect some pages, or set a canonical non-www to
# www redirect (or vice versa), place that code here. Ensure those
# redirects use the correct RewriteRule syntax and the [R=301,L] flags.
#
## End - Custom redirects

##
# Uncomment following line if your webserver's URL
# is not directly related to physical file paths.
# Update Your Joomla! Directory (just / for root).
##

RewriteBase /

## Begin - Joomla! core SEF Section.
#
RewriteRule .* - [E=HTTP_AUTHORIZATION:%{HTTP:Authorization}]
#
# If the requested path and file is not /index.php and the request
# has not already been internally rewritten to the index.php script
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !^/index\.php
# and the request is for something within the component folder,
# or for the site root, or for an extensionless URL, or the
# requested URL ends with one of the listed extensions
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} /component/|(/[^.]*|\.(php|html?|feed|pdf|vcf|raw))$ [NC]
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# and the requested path and file doesn't directly match a physical folder
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# internally rewrite the request to the index.php script
RewriteRule .* index.php [L]
#
## End - Joomla! core SEF Section.

Please try temporary to set the permissions for 777 for all files inside the gk folder and for the folder gk (only for the test purpose - please revert it after the test and tell me about the results).

After setting both gk directory and its files to 777, the result is the same: css is broken; I also tried various combination of css compression/CssCache/gkCache in template settings with the very same result of site messed by css corruption.

By the way after setting to 777 I also tried to click on the link you provided http://www.museodiocesanolanciano.it/ca ... a7.css.php but I still get "internal server error"

If nothing can be done I will make do not using css compression...

You can try to use the 3rd party plugins like JCH Optimize in this case.

Hello,

maybe there's something wrong with my provider: JCH breaks the site as well... maybe is php version, or whatever... it does not matter: I will not use css compression; the site does not seem so slow (I hope so): later I will set up the Joomla cache hoping it could help.

Maybe one day there will be some way to solve it...

Thank you for your assistance