I am currently migrating a website to Joomla 3.x. I have built it around the Xero template, which has been working well, albeit that the compiling less to css function has been slow, although I am using a low spec box to build the site.

Since upgrading the Xero template to v1.2 the compile less function continuously displays the Compiling less to css and saving your changes .... message and then hangs.

Any assistance on this will be greatly appreciated.

Hi

Have there been any server changes in the mean time?

What do your server logs say?

Thanks
Paul

Hello Paul,

No server changes at all. The site is on a WAMP local box so I have full control of the environment.

Server log as follows -
Any ideas why it errored out?

Chris

Hi Chris,
Will it work if you change the theme setting in the theme dropdown?
Thanks

Hi Anthony,

Tried a couple of different themes. Both errored out exactly the same way with Apache returning a code 500.

Chris

Hi Chris,

What version of wamp do you have running?

Cheers
Paul

Hello Paul,

I'm using Wampserver 2.4 with the following components -

Windows Vista Home Premium SP2 latest update
Apache: 2.4.4
MySQL: 5.6.12
PHP: 5.4.16

Do let me know if there is any other info I can provide.

Chris

Hi Chris,

If you open chrome developer tools and check the console window do you see any error messages?

Do you have any firewall extensions installed?

Regards,

Rob

Hi Chris,

Are you able to install a quickstart file version and compile on that?

Thanks
Paul

Hi Rob/Paul,

Rob - Firefox Developer Tools reports the following rendering errors when I load Template Manager: Edit Style > Xero.

I am using Kaspersky firewall. I have suspended it while running the less 'compiler' (which surely is an interpreter, not a compiler?) but it made no difference.

Paul - I'm new to Joomlabamboo. Can you confirm that I am right in understanding that quickstart installs Joomla 3.x + test data + the Xero template?

Apologies. Forgot to add attachement with page load errors.

Chris

Hi Chris,

I meant firewall extensions istalled into Joomla such as admintools or rsfirewall.

I would call it a compiler as it compiles the less files into css files. The javascript version that runs in the browser is more of an interpreter.

I'm struggling to thing of anything else it could be.

Would you be able to create an akeeba backup file and send us a dropbox link through the ticket system?
We could then try testing it locally.

Regards,

Rob

Hi Chris,

Regarding a quickstart - yep you are right

It does exactly this > "Installs Joomla 3.x + test data + the Xero template"

Cheers
Paul

Duh! Joomla firewall! I have no Akeeba extensions installed as this is a test build, which answers your first question. I'll install Akeeba and send over a backup via dropbox as you suggest.

Paul,

I'll do the install as you suggest later today.

Regards,

Chris

Hi,

Did you try turning the firewall off?

If that is the issue then there is no need to send a backup.

As the site is local then you can safely disable the firewall while you are developing.

Regards,

Rob

Rob,

I have no firewall installed as this is a local build.

Chris

Right - could you let us know how you get on with installing a Quickstart

Regards,
Paul

Ok,

I wasn't sure from your comment:

Duh! Joomla firewall!

Paul/Rob,

I have installed the Xero Quickstart package. A quick test on the front end and all is well. I have then logged in as an administrator, opened the Xero - default site style and selected a new theme and then hit Save and compile theme. The same error occured.

Here is the last entry in the Apache access.log file -
Let me know what I can do to help resolve this.

Chris