Subdomains and CSS

Do you have a link, we can then see where it is trying to load the css from.

Ah, same issue I had a long time ago. The problem here is the url for the css style sheet. You have to go into the templates and make sure the link to the CSS file is correct. Sometimes it is linked as http://domain.com/file as opposed to http://sub.domain.com/file

OK. Let's try that again without the angle backets and see if some of it comes out.

Link:

http://atomboy.massmediamagazine.com

The root /styles.css (written by MT) has this:

@import url(http://atomboy.massmediamagazine.com/mt-static/themes-base/blog.css);
@import url(http://atomboy.massmediamagazine.com/mt-static/themes/tristan-blue-4.2/screen.css);

The main page for atomboy.etc. is styled and the page source gives this:

link rel="stylesheet" href=http://massmediamagazine.com/mt-static/themes/tristan-blue-4.2/screen.css type="text/css"

Followed links from main page are non-styled and give this (see above):

link rel="stylesheet" href="http://atomboy.massmediamagazine.com/styles.css" type="text/css"

The MT control panel link to styles.css for atomboy.massmediamagazine.com gives:

/* This is the StyleCatcher theme addition. Do not remove this block. */
@import url(/mt-static/themes/tristan-blue-4.2/screen.css);
/* end StyleCatcher imports */

BUT this is after what looks like a download dialogue box opens up and disappears in a split second. The source of the page just has:

!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"
HTML HEAD
META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252" /HEAD
BODY /BODY /HTML

I hope this gives you something to go on and makes sense.

The reason for wanting to do this is to have directories for some things and subdomains for others.

Thank you once again for your help.

Hang on!

I am going to have a look at what else is interfering with this.

I may have to delete the above sobdomain.

Thanks.

Hey, Atomboy - did you ever get a resolution to your problem? I'mt trying to do the same thing and getting the same result. I've deleted and recreated the subdomain multiple times, and tried multiple combinations of locations for the css files, and am still getting an unformatted page. How did you address this?

http://hd-radio.xzebit.com

Thanks,
Don

Hey,

I think I'm having the same problem. I have MANY domains, and I was hoping that MT would be the solution to my problem.

When I did the install, I installed to:
domain1.com/new/

When I attempt to add a blog
domain2.com/new/

It gives me an unformatted page also. I have the directory mapping correct.

Actually, I'm not sure I can delete my comment, but I found the solution:

http://www.sixapart.com/movabletype/kb/installation/images_styles_a.html

Hope this helps.

Cheers