chatbug Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 I have a weird problem... not sure what is causing the issue... whether it's my browser, site or server. It has to do with my main blog... h_tp://blog.chatbug.org/ I am using Windows XP with Mozilla Firfox 1.5.0.2, and only a few hours ago, images on my blog that's hosted on TCH (e.g. default template's background, smileys) stopped showing up. External images shows up fine, and everything looks in order when I load it up on MSIE6. Haven't got a friend with Firefox online at the moment to test this, but a friend with IE also said it shows up fine. This problem seems to be specific to my main blog. When I load up my other blog (h_tp://restricted.chatbug.org/), the default theme's background images shows up fine on my Firefox. Hopefully this may help trace possible problems(?!)... Earlier in the day, I made backups of my site from cpanel. After which, I setup redirection from <h_tp://chatbug.org/blog> to <h_tp://blog.chatbug.org>, backed up access logs and activated hotlink protection. I tested the hotlink protection using <http://altlab.com/hotlinking.html> and images seemed to still be displayed, so I altered the hotlink protection until images weren't. Up until then, images were still displaying normally on my computer. Later in the evening, when I saw images appearing with borders from modifications to the CSS I did a few days ago, I reloaded, thinking that it might be cached version (possibly by my ISP?) showing up. At first, the borders didn't go away, then all TCH-hosted images disappeared. When I clear the cache on my Firefox and reload the site, the images still doesn't load... not even after a reboot of my computer. Even the WYSIWYG editor in WP admin doesn't show up. I tried to restore the home directory and database backup I made that afternoon, but it doesn't seem to help. I'm stumped as to what may be causing this. If anyone else has Firefox and experiences the same problem loading my site... or not... please let me know. Does anyone have any idea what might be wrong? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 I just visited blog.chatbug.org (using firefox on XP) and atleast the smilies shows up fine. I don´t know what the background should look like, so I cant say if it show up or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Bruce Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 I can see the images and smilies. If you are unable to restore the backup yourself, upload it to the server and open a ticket with the help desk and ask them to restore it for you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinidi Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Last time I had trouble with images not showing up when I thought they should it was because I had turned on hotlink protection, but hadn't whitelisted the subdomain. But I am seeing images hosted by your server. Here is an example What are you expecting to see but aren't? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatbug Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 The "default theme" background for the header (above "Jazz night at Brown Sugar") should be a light blue box wrapping around "blog.chatbug.org" <br> "chatbug’s blog". My firefox screen captures: MSIE screen captures: Well, by the looks of things... it's probably just my firefox that's giving this problem. Hmm... well, guess I'll see if it fixes itself by tomorrow... or I might try reinstalling firefox on my computer. So long as my site looks normal to the visitors, that's fine. I can resort to using MSIE (unfortunately) until I resolve this problem. Thanks everyone! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Thomas Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Do you have any adblockers running in Firefox. If so try disable them and see what happens? I know this might not be the issue, but sometimes those blockers do a pretty much better job than expected. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abinidi Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Yep. I'm seeing the site fine in my firefox. I'd second Thomas's suggesiton to check to see what extensions might be causing this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stevevan Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 I did a side-by-side comparison between IE and FF and both appear to be the same. (I'm only running 6 extensions, tho'.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatbug Posted May 1, 2006 Author Share Posted May 1, 2006 Nope... no ad blockers. The only extensions I use are ForecastFox, Gmail Manager and SearchPluginHacks... which I have had way before I had this weird problem. Guess re-installation's the way to go. I'll try that sometime tomorrow... it's almost 2am now in Taiwan... goodnight everyone! Thanks again. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Don Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 It looks the same in IE and firefox to me let us know what happens. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Samrc Posted May 1, 2006 Share Posted May 1, 2006 Looks same in FF and IE to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chatbug Posted May 2, 2006 Author Share Posted May 2, 2006 Just an update... it's fixed by reinstallation. Weird... don't know what went wrong... but oh well... it's working now. Can't complain anymore. slightly Firefox 1.5.0.3 security update's coming out soon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCH-Tim Posted May 2, 2006 Share Posted May 2, 2006 Glad you got it working. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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