SL Combinator : Combine and Compress JavaScript and CSS on-the-fly : Version Update (2.1.0) 1st April, 2009

Hi Stephen,

I think I figured out what the problem is. I had my CSS files located in a subdomain, which seems to have been the issue. When I moved the CSS files to root level, everything worked fine. Hope that helps! Thanks so much for the fantastic work!

Hi eclectiv,

I think I figured out what the problem is. I had my CSS files located in a subdomain, which seems to have been the issue. When I moved the CSS files to root level, everything worked fine.

Aha, that would be a problem, yes. The plugin can handle files in subdirectories just fine, but not subdomains.

Hope that helps! Thanks so much for the fantastic work!

Good to know you’ve got it sorted, and you’re welcome 😊

Cheers, Stephen

hi stephen,

the code below shows a 403 forbidden error in firebug. the min and min/cache folders have 777 rights, plugin V2, PHP5. any idea what im doing wrong?

{exp:sl_combinator:combine_js disable="no" debug="yes"}
[removed][removed]    
[removed][removed]
{/exp:sl_combinator:combine_js}

edit - it wont list the script tags inside the sl_combinator tags, but they are normal js include script tags that work fine outside of the tags.

Hi stef25,

any idea what im doing wrong?

Nothing immediately springs to mind. I’ll have to see if I can recreate the problem locally, because at the moment I have no idea what’s causing that.

Let me know if you have any more information that could point me in the right direction.

Cheers, Stephen

Hi eclectiv,

I think I figured out what the problem is. I had my CSS files located in a subdomain, which seems to have been the issue. When I moved the CSS files to root level, everything worked fine.

Aha, that would be a problem, yes. The plugin can handle files in subdirectories just fine, but not subdomains.

Hope that helps! Thanks so much for the fantastic work!

Good to know you’ve got it sorted, and you’re welcome 😊 Cheers, Stephen

Hey Stephen, I am having difficulties getting this working. I am attempting to get this to work on a site in development that is actually hosted on a subdomain. AFAIK I have the settings setup properly, but when I turn it on, it doesn’t seem to work.

Would it be not working because my entire site is hosted on a subdomain? Seems odd. This is what it is outputting instead of the actual minified stuff.

{exp:sl_combinator:combine_css disable="no" debug="no"}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="http://subdomain.site.com/themes/site_themes/site_themes/layout.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" />
{/exp:sl_combinator:combine_css}

renders this:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://subdomain.site.com/scripts/min/?f=http://subdomain.site.com/themes/site_themes/theme_folder/layout.css" />

Any idea what could be going wrong?

Hi they inspire,

Hey Stephen, I am having difficulties getting this working. I am attempting to get this to work on a site in development that is actually hosted on a subdomain. AFAIK I have the settings setup properly, but when I turn it on, it doesn’t seem to work.

Have you tried it using an absolute URL from the subdomain root, rather than the full HTTP URL? i.e.:

{exp:sl_combinator:combine_css disable="no" debug="no"}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/themes/site_themes/site_themes/layout.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" />
{/exp:sl_combinator:combine_css}

Let me know how you get on.

Stephen

Hey Stephen, yeah, actually I have tried every possible combination of urls. I am also using .htaccess rewrite to remove index.php, here is the .htaccess, should be normal no?

# remove index.php (Include List Method)
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 ^(home|scripts|_globals|bathroom|kitchen|about|locations|search|contact|careers|news|P[0-9]{2,8}) [NC]
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php?/$1 [L]

If I change it to a absolute url, and this is what gets output:

{exp:sl_combinator:combine_css disable="no" debug="no"}
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/themes/site_themes/theme_folder/layout.css" type="text/css" media="screen" charset="utf-8" />
{/exp:sl_combinator:combine_css}

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="screen" href="http://subdomain.site.com/scripts/min/?f=themes/site_themes/theme_folder/layout.css" />

is still what I am getting. :( hope that helps narrow it down

Hm.

The plugin is outputting the code correctly, which suggests that the problem resides with the actual minify code. My first guess would be that there are problems retrieving the server path to the files, because of the configuration of your subdomain.

I’ve cobbled together a very basic test script (attached). Drop it into the root of your subdomain, and visit it in your browser. It should output the correct server path to your test file; if it doesn’t, there’s probably something squiffy in the way DOCUMENT_ROOT works on your subdomain.

Let me know how you get on, and we’ll see if there’s a way around the problem.

Cheers, Stephen

Hey Stephen,

Did as you said, and it seemed to output the server path fine. I am re-upping the /min/ folder to see if that changes anything. Other than that I am not sure what could be causing this to not work. Real bummer because I was really excited about using this extension.

hmm no dice :/

I am hoping this works itself out once I push the site to the actual live server. Maybe it is something to do with the subdomain.

FWIW: PHP Version 5.2.6

Cheers, thanks for your help, much appreciated.

Hmm, I tried this on another site, just to test, and I am getting the same result. Odd for sure. This site is a live site, not residing on a subdomain either.

Hmm, I tried this on another site, just to test, and I am getting the same result. Odd for sure. This site is a live site, not residing on a subdomain either.

It’s not working, even on when on the main domain? That is weird.

A couple of quick tests you can try (using the code you pasted above as an example): 1. Visit http://subdomain.site.com/scripts/min/?f in your browser. This should display a “400 Bad Request” error (or similar). 2. Visit http://subdomain.site.com/scripts/min/?f=themes/site_themes/theme_folder/layout.css in your browser. This should display the compressed CSS. 3. Visit http://subdomain.site.com/themes/site_themes/theme_folder/layout.css in your browser, to confirm that it displays the uncompressed CSS code correctly.

Let me know how you get on.

Stephen

Hey Stephen,

Sorry about that, I ended up getting it working 😊 I was confused, I thought that the plugin wrote out a new file that would be in the cache folder that it would link to, instead of those urls with /f?=blah stuff. It’s working as expected, and thanks so much for making such a useful plugin.

cheers

Sorry about that, I ended up getting it working I was confused, I thought that the plugin wrote out a new file that would be in the cache folder that it would link to, instead of those urls with /f?=blah stuff. It’s working as expected, and thanks so much for making such a useful plugin.

Ah right. The “/?f=blah” stuff is passing minify a list of files to combine and compress. Minify does its thing, and then caches the resultant file for future use.

Glad you got it all sorted anyway.

Cheers, Stephen