Error : actinic.css contains an invalid path

[Owain]

Hi,
I have recently started getting a couple of errors on a site I am developing. When I click on a page to preview it I get a pop up saying "C:\program files\actinic V7\sites\EE\acatalog/actinic.css contains an invalid path" I click OK and then another popup appears saying "Error generating HTML page"

Does anyone have any ideas what I have done wrong?

I noticed the folder acatalog does not exist within the EE folder but none of my other sites I am building have it either and they work find.

Help please!

O.

[retekdirect]

Off the top of my head, you may have to copy a file that actinic.css is referencing into your preview folder (or a subfolder therein, maintaining the correct path). You kinda have to emulate the 'live' path within the preview folder i think.

And welcome to the boards


Ryan

[Owain]

Thanks, I will have a look.

The problem is I cant find where actinic.css is within the site, the biggest problem is I have taken over the site from another person who left no notes about what he had done in the past.

O.

[jont]

In the original path above you have a forward slash "/" before the actinic.css file - is that a typo? If not it should be a "\" for the local preview so there may be a hardcoded link to the css to work on the site but causing the issue with local preview - make it a relative link and not fixed

[jont]

Check the Act_Primary.html template in the root of the site and the link should be

<LINK REL=STYLESHEET HREF="actinic.css">

[Owain]

In the original path above you have a forward slash "/" before the actinic.css file - is that a typo? If not it should be a "\" for the local preview so there may be a hardcoded link to the css to work on the site but causing the issue with local preview - make it a relative link and not fixed

This was not a typo, I thought it looked wrong but trying to find where that path has been entered is seeming harder than I thought!

I have checked the Act_Primary.html and the path for the actinic.css is fine.

Thanks for your help so far.....keep it coming

O.

[Owain]

Another thing I have noticed is when I try and change the settings on my folder to diable read-only it says it is done but when I go back to look at the properties they read-only box is checked again!

O.

[Owain]

Ok, dont know what happened but I have just imported a snapshot of the site and I will just re enter anything I havent got. I dont have time to work out why the problem occured

Thanks for everyones help.

O.

[retekdirect]

Yep, the dodgy slash isn't a typo - i dunno why it pops up in the Actinic error message as such. I think it's local to Actinic's interpretation of the error.

I had the same problem - i'm fairly damn sure it was to do with a file missing, and was easily sorted by copying some files into the preview html folder. Worked fine afterwards.


Ryan

[NormanRouxel]

Could the error be within actinic.css?

CSS definitions can reference other files (as background images, etc) and Actinic may be trying to parse these for upload.

[Owain]

No idea, like I said I just restored the site from a previoud snapshot and its fine now, I guess that doesnt help anyone who has the problem and doesnt have a backup.....

O.

[jont]

No idea, like I said I just restored the site from a previoud snapshot and its fine now, I guess that doesnt help anyone who has the problem and doesnt have a backup.....

O.

Todays lesson for everyone who does not take a daily backup

[wjcampbe]

Todays lesson for everyone who does not take a daily backup

Actually, if you only retain the previous day's backup ... and the problem went un-noticed ...

Good backup practice means a full set of backups. If you don't have storage room on your local PC, create a private directory on your website, and keep them there. I can go back to any day in the last three months, and to the last day of each month before that, if I have to, and I know that some day I will have to. I learned the value of backups as a software developer, in circumstances I will never forget.

[remmo]

Has anyone been able to find a solution to this problem? It's just happened to me... backed up yesterday but did a lot of work today and don't want to redo it all

[remmo]

Solution Found

I've just found the solution to this problem... well it worked for me anyway

I've been designing a page in Dreamweaver and imported it into Actinic. Somehow I've got a reference to 2 stylesheets in the code - one Actinic.css in the Preview folder and the other in the Site 1 folder.

I've just removed one of the stylesheets (and all references to it) and all is sweet!