Re: [Puppet Users] ongoing puppet dashboard frustration

2014-06-03 Thread Fine, Thomas
I was using the development tools in Safari. I suspect it would've reported an error, had I actually looked at the error console. Instead I was looking everywhere but there. Sometimes when you miss the obvious, it becomes increasingly more difficult to find it again. tom On Tue, Jun 3, 2

Re: [Puppet Users] ongoing puppet dashboard frustration

2014-06-03 Thread Ken Barber
> I didn't find the problem until I resorted to studying tcpdumps of the browser > traffic to see the css file being transmitted over the wire. FYI the developer tools in Chrome (or equivalents in firefox etc.) also help tracking these kinds of issues, probably a little faster then analyzing tcpdu

Re: [Puppet Users] ongoing puppet dashboard frustration

2014-06-03 Thread Fine, Thomas
SOLVED. My Apache installation was being crippled by an incomplete mime.types that had no entry for css files. They were being served as text/plain, and hence were being ignored by the browsers. This is the most time I have ever wasted on a trivially stupid bug. I didn't find the problem until

Re: [Puppet Users] ongoing puppet dashboard frustration

2014-06-03 Thread Felix Frank
On 06/02/2014 11:42 PM, Fine, Thomas wrote: > The insane part here is that (as far as I can tell) this dynamically > generated file never ever ever actually needs to change unless I > reconfigure or re-install puppet-dashboard. So alternatively if you can > tell me how to just serve this as a plai

[Puppet Users] ongoing puppet dashboard frustration

2014-06-02 Thread Fine, Thomas
Hi, My problem is that the CSS formatting in puppet dashboard does not show up under apache, but works fine under webrick. This SOUNDS exactly like some old bugs (9676, 9767), but I've applied all the recommended fixes to no avail, and at an rate the symptoms are only the same on the surface. My