# No css formatting **URL:** \ **Category:** rubyonrails-talk\ **Created:** [September 23, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/no-css-formatting/34663 "2008-09-23T16:23:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MJohnH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/mjohnh/32/9216_2.png) [@MJohnH](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/MJohnH)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 4:23pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/no-css-formatting/34663/1 "2008-09-23T16:23:52Z")
I've just moved a rails site across to a test server from my development PC. I've frozen rails and put all the relevant gems into the vendor/gems directory too. I've migrated the mysql database and configured Apache with Phusion Passenger. I can access the site and the content is fine. The formatting however, has disappeared - it's as though the css file does not exist, but it does and it's in public/stylesheets. Any ideas anybody? ---
**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 4:55pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/no-css-formatting/34663/2 "2008-09-23T16:55:57Z")
Martin Hawkins wrote: > The formatting however, has disappeared - it's as though the css file does not exist, but it does and it's in public/stylesheets. > > Any ideas anybody? Do you have the included stlyes in the header? \<%= stylesheet\_link\_tag "styles" %\> ---
**Author:** ![11175](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/8edcca/32.png) [@11175](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/11175)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 5:32pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/no-css-formatting/34663/3 "2008-09-23T17:32:50Z")
> Any ideas anybody? Check your stylesheet path especially if you went from Windows to \*nix... ---
**Author:** ![MJohnH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/mjohnh/32/9216_2.png) [@MJohnH](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/MJohnH)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 5:34pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/no-css-formatting/34663/4 "2008-09-23T17:34:02Z")
yes and the source code of the page looks good.. ---
**Author:** ![hassan](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/hassan/32/714_2.png) [@hassan](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/hassan)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2008, 5:59pm UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/no-css-formatting/34663/5 "2008-09-23T17:59:13Z")
You can use Firebug to determine whether the style sheet is found or not (404), or you can just try to access the url directly. If it's not 404, make sure it's being sent as the correct mime type. ---
**Author:** ![MJohnH](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/rubyonrails/user_avatar/discuss.rubyonrails.org/mjohnh/32/9216_2.png) [@MJohnH](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/MJohnH)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2008, 8:38am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/no-css-formatting/34663/6 "2008-09-24T08:38:35Z")
Thanks for your suggestions, guys. The css came through ok when I amended .htaccess to remove a Rewriterule command that apache2 was objecting to. ---
**Author:** ![Ramon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@Ramon](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/u/Ramon)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2008, 5:07am UTC](https://discuss.rubyonrails.org/t/no-css-formatting/34663/7 "2008-09-25T05:07:35Z")
When you go to localhost:3000/stylesheets/your-stylesheet.css does it come out ok? Ramon Tayag