[How To] Move CSS to file system

Yes this should work on vB4.

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

1) ftp into your site and chmod /clientscript/vbulletin_css/ folder to 777.
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Can you be more specific on how to do this step? I think I have done before but I forgot what to do. Thanks

From your ftp client, just right click on the folder and you should see an option called permissions or chmod.

So I have a mac and using transmit ftpp so when I right click I see Get info

I click on that and see read/write permission and something call Octal ?

The # in that box is 755 do I change to 777? Thanks

this is for vb3.8

Yes that should work.

Originally Posted by dascrow

This plugin seems to fix the issue:

Prefix url if storing CSS as a files - Page 3 - vBulletin.org Forum

Appears to work on vb 3.8.4pl1 as well.

runs with the Suite? anyway i got some troubles with the css stored, the arcade system doesn't running correctly, and suggest me to turn off this setting ... what do you think about?

How can i change @import to a linked css? What to edit?

You may need to edit core vb files to do this.

Ok can I get a SEO for dumies explaination on this?? I have gone into my ftp and I have a file named vbulletin_css, am I supposed to rename it?? or add a folder called 777??

You need to CHMOD the folder so that it is writable. You can ususally do this with your ftp client. (right click on it, permissions or chmod menu)

Ok thanks I got it done

Originally Posted by Brian Cummiskey

Advantages:

• linked style sheets are cached by browsers.
  
  
  • downloads once, saves bandwidth, pages load faster after initial view
  
  
• removes all the code in the head area of the document.
  
  
  • replaces with 1 line
  • increases code2content ratio
  • moves your REAL content/text towards the top of the document.
  
  
• saves a database call
  
  
  • uses filesystem instead
  
  

Disadvantages:

• Can cause issues on multiple web server set ups (will only save to one web server)
• Will not be included in a db backup (be sure to back up the file system too)

Whats the best way to back up the file system? ... Grab the route folder and drag and save it on your computers desktop or something like that?

You should have a comprehensive backup plan with your datacenter with multiple points of disaster recovery.

I store a back up on a NAS at my datacenter, plus download it to my home machine once a month. At worst, if texas blows up, I have within 30 days of data at worst to re-deply my site somewhere else.