When in Configure Waf there are a small number of items that should present a popup, such as file paths to monitor, domain names, and protected users. The "Plus" button is not responding to any of these unless I put the site into debug mode. As soon as I turn debug mode off again the problem recurs.
#37972 Selection options not responding unless put site in debug mode
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Joomla! version
4.2.4
PHP version
8.1.10
Admin Tools version
7.1.11
Latest post by nicholas on Tuesday, 01 November 2022 05:34 CDT
Monday, 31 October 2022 13:27 CDT
abilityfirst
Monday, 31 October 2022 16:55 CDT
abilityfirst
After some experimentation it appears to be something in the .htaccess file, since when I remove it then it works fine. The file was created from the .htaccess maker with no custom code.
I've also noticed that when launching the admin login page from another browser none of the CSS styles are applied when the .htaccess file exists.
Monday, 31 October 2022 17:15 CDT
abilityfirst
After more experimentation it seems to be something to do with the option "Automatically compress static resources". When I disabled this, it seems to work.
I'm using up to date browsers, so seems odd.
Tuesday, 01 November 2022 01:48 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
The "Automatically compress static resources" option depends on your web server's ability to do that. It is possible that an older web server cannot detect file types correctly, messing up the automatic compression of JavaScript files which would indeed cause JavaScript errors on your site. If that happens, disable this option.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
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Tuesday, 01 November 2022 04:37 CDT
abilityfirst
Thanks for the reply. The server is my localhost using XAMPP on Windows (latest version), so it's useful to know it's probably that.
Tuesday, 01 November 2022 05:34 CDT
nicholas
Akeeba Staff
Manager
If I am not terribly mistaken —it's been a while since I last used XAMPP— I seem to recall that Apache on XAMPP has a conflict with Joomla 4's pre-compressed JS and CSS files. It does not return the correct headers, causing the pre-compressed files to be re-compressed which, of course, breaks them. When you set Debug Site to Yes you are also telling Joomla to use the non-minified, non-pre-compressed versions of the core CSS and JS files which would explain why that works.
Nicholas K. Dionysopoulos
Lead Developer and Director
🇬🇷Greek: native 🇬🇧English: excellent 🇫🇷French: basic • 🕐 My time zone is Europe / Athens
Please keep in mind my timezone and cultural differences when reading my replies. Thank you!