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cascading style sheet issues when domain forwarding

Zones: FrontPage-Expressions, Web Servers, Web Development

I have two www.domains names. For this post: Example1.com and Example2.com. www.Example1.com is the main website for the company. www.Example2.com is just a domain name that forwards traffic to Example1.com.

The website is being set up with FrontPage 2003 using a dynamic web template and a cascading style sheet. The style sheet is pretty much just one embedded font.

When I view the site by going to www.example1.com, the website loads properly, accessing the css and displays my embedded font.
When I view the same site by going to www.example2.com, twhich just forwards to www.example1.com, the website does not load properly, almost as if the css is not found. No error messages are generated. My one embedded font just doesn't display correctly.

Any ideas?

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Zone: Web Development

Question Asked By: GaryFuqua

Solution Provided By: hielo

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02.16.2008 at 11:29PM PST, ID: 20913289

GaryFuqua:

Here is the ccs.

                       
         
           
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             <STYLE TYPE="text/css">
<!-- /* $WEFT -- Created by: Gary Fuqua on 2/16/2008 -- */
  @font-face {
    font-family: Journal;
    font-style:  normal;
    font-weight: normal;
    src: url(JOURNAL1.eot);
  }
  @font-face {
    font-family: Journal;
    font-style:  normal;
    font-weight: 700;
    src: url(JOURNAL0.eot);
  }
  .JFont48 {
	font-family: Journal;
	font-size: 48px;
	color: #fffffff;
}
 
.JFont24 {
	font-family: Journal;
	font-size: 24px;
	color: #fffffff;
}
.JFont18 {
	font-family: Journal;
	font-size: 18px;
	color: #fffffff;
}
 
 .JFont20 {
	font-family: Journal;
	font-size: 20px;
	color: #fffffff;
}
 
  
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</STYLE>

           
         

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02.16.2008 at 11:31PM PST, ID: 20913295

GaryFuqua:

Here is the reference for the ccs called dtw.css in my index.htm page

                       
             <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="dtw.css">

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02.17.2008 at 12:15AM PST, ID: 20913360

hielo:

If you are infact redirecting correctly it should work. Try specifying the full path:
href="http://www.example1.com/dtw.css">

02.17.2008 at 11:22AM PST, ID: 20915111

GaryFuqua:

Hielo:

Good idea. Unfortunately, the full path your suggested, did not work. That was my first guess too. Can you elaborate on "redirecting correctly" Until this CSS issue, the redirecting was working perfectly. Right now it works except the CSS. I just I'm not sure how this could happen. Can a CSS be applied/or not on a redirect?

02.17.2008 at 01:00PM PST, ID: 20915647

hielo:

>>Can you elaborate on "redirecting correctly"
You said "www.Example2.com is just a domain name that forwards traffic to Example1.com"
My guess is you meant "redirect" instead of "forward". So if Example2.com is redirecting the user to Example1.com/test and dtw.css is in Example1.com/dtw.css, then the browser will not find it. Conversly, if you are redirecting the user to Exmpl1.com but your css is located at Exampl1.com/Styles/dtw.css, the browser will once again not find it.

What you need to do is open the page where the CSS is NOT loading, view the html source code, figure out what is the path to the css that the broswer sees. Then copy the path of the css and paste it onto another browser window and see if it loads.

Assuming you specified the correct path to the CSS, another possibility is that the dwt.css file contains @import statments which may not be pointing to the right path.

02.17.2008 at 05:35PM PST, ID: 20916959

GaryFuqua:

heilo:
I don't see any problem.
Here are the actual domains. Maybe you will see it.

www.discounttechnologyworkforce.com <-The working site
www.godtw.com <- The site that redirects to www.discounttechnologyworkforce.com

My hosting provider, which controls the redirect just sent me an e-mail saying they don't know why this is happening either. It must be somewhere in my code.

02.17.2008 at 05:57PM PST, ID: 20917030

hielo:

You need to clear you browser's cache Gary. I don't see any difference between the two domains. I got the identical css file for both domains. I tested it in IE 6 and FF. So, as far as the public goes, that site is ok.

02.17.2008 at 07:24PM PST, ID: 20917363

GaryFuqua:

Huh. Cleared my cache and still the same problem. Are you seeing a Handwriting looking font on both pages?

02.17.2008 at 07:28PM PST, ID: 20917381

GaryFuqua:

I get the same result on multiple computers on our LAN.

02.17.2008 at 07:49PM PST, ID: 20917450

hielo:

>> Are you seeing a Handwriting looking font on both pages?
Only through IE and only on one domain. I am attaching the headers so you see what the browser sees. Everything seems to be in order.
Try updating your css to this:
<STYLE TYPE="text/css">

</STYLE>

                       
         
           
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             Headers
GET / HTTP/1.1
Accept: image/gif, image/x-xbitmap, image/jpeg, image/pjpeg, application/x-shockwave-flash, application/xaml+xml, application/vnd.ms-xpsdocument, application/x-ms-xbap, application/x-ms-application, application/vnd.ms-excel, application/vnd.ms-powerpoint, application/msword, */*
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-Modified-Since: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 20:38:55 GMT
If-None-Match: "1d71ef-11e1-47b89b5f"
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1)
Host: www.godtw.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
 
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:43:39 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_throttle/3.1.2-THEBOOK1 mod_jk2/2.0.2 Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.2 PHP/4.4.7
Connection: Keep-Alive, Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
ETag: "1d71ef-11e1-47b89b5f"
 
GET /dtw.css HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://www.godtw.com/
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-Modified-Since: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 19:36:59 GMT
If-None-Match: "1d71f1-2a3-47b88cdb"
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1)
Host: www.godtw.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
 
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:43:39 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_throttle/3.1.2-THEBOOK1 mod_jk2/2.0.2 Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.2 PHP/4.4.7
Connection: Keep-Alive, Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=98
ETag: "1d71f1-2a3-47b88cdb"
 
GET /JOURNAL1.eot HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://www.godtw.com/
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-Modified-Since: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:55:19 GMT
If-None-Match: "1d71f5-2bad-47b7b027"
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1)
Host: www.godtw.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
 
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:43:39 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_throttle/3.1.2-THEBOOK1 mod_jk2/2.0.2 Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.2 PHP/4.4.7
Connection: Keep-Alive, Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=97
ETag: "1d71f5-2bad-47b7b027"
 
GET /JOURNAL0.eot HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://www.godtw.com/
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-Modified-Since: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 03:55:19 GMT
If-None-Match: "1d71f6-2bad-47b7b027"
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1)
Host: www.godtw.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
 
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:43:39 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_throttle/3.1.2-THEBOOK1 mod_jk2/2.0.2 Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.2 PHP/4.4.7
Connection: Keep-Alive, Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=99
ETag: "1d71f6-2bad-47b7b027"
 
GET /images/background.gif HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://www.godtw.com/
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-Modified-Since: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:16:56 GMT
If-None-Match: "22701c-14bb1-47b6aa08"
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1)
Host: www.godtw.com
Connection: Keep-Alive
 
HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:43:39 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_throttle/3.1.2-THEBOOK1 mod_jk2/2.0.2 Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.2 PHP/4.4.7
Connection: Keep-Alive, Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=96
ETag: "22701c-14bb1-47b6aa08"
           
         

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02.17.2008 at 07:59PM PST, ID: 20917476

GaryFuqua:

I made the change, but get the same result.

02.17.2008 at 08:34PM PST, ID: 20917577

hielo:

I don't know what's going on in your server. I still see:
GET /dtw.css HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
Referer: http://www.discounttechnologyworkforce.com/index.htm
Accept-Language: en-us
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
If-Modified-Since: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 03:57:22 GMT
If-None-Match: "1d71f1-2f9-47b90222"
User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 5.1; SV1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 1.1.4322; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30; InfoPath.1)
Host: www.discounttechnologyworkforce.com
Connection: Keep-Alive

HTTP/1.1 304 Not Modified
Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2008 04:25:25 GMT
Server: Apache/1.3.37 (Unix) FrontPage/5.0.2.2634 mod_throttle/3.1.2-THEBOOK1 mod_jk2/2.0.2 Sun-ONE-ASP/4.0.2 PHP/4.4.7
Connection: Keep-Alive, Keep-Alive
Keep-Alive: timeout=15, max=95
ETag: "1d71f1-2f9-47b90222"

Which basically says that the css file has not been modified since Feb 18, but I do see the changes your made to the css after downloading the css.

Update your html to this and see what happens:
<META HTTP-EQUIV="expires" CONTENT="0">


<META HTTP-EQUIV="CACHE-CONTROL" CONTENT="NO-CACHE">
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=windows-1252">

02.17.2008 at 08:47PM PST, ID: 20917623

GaryFuqua:

I tried changing it to the other domain to see if I could break the working domain. To my surprise, the working domain kept working. Now I am really confused. I changed it back to a relative link.

02.17.2008 at 09:04PM PST, ID: 20917691

GaryFuqua:

I am thinking about abandoning the embedded fonts via the Microsoft tools. Even if I solve this problem, I need to fix it for Mozilla as well. I am considering this approach.

http://www.mikeindustries.com/sifr/

02.17.2008 at 09:15PM PST, ID: 20917738

hielo:

>>Even if I solve this problem, I need to fix it for Mozilla as well
Mozilla will not honor those font statements (plus they are extremely difficult to read - in my opinion).

Your altenative seems reasonable. The flash plugin is installed on most browsers and the vast majority of people also have javascript enabled.

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