Forum Front-End
Problems with loading web resources, like stylesheets and images, may make the site to look visually broken:
This may be accompanied by more detailed errors displayed in the browser’s Console.
The problem is usually caused by an incorrect value of the Board URL setting (Configuration → Site Details in the Admin CP).
Make sure that the setting contains the right URL, and is in the correct format (e.g. https://example.com/forum — contains the scheme, domain, path if such exists, and does not include a slash / at the end).
Common problems to look for are:
- incorrect scheme (e.g.
http://when the forum is accessed usinghttps://), - incorrect domain,
- missing subdomain (e.g. when the forum was installed on
forum.example.com, the subdomain must be included), - missing or incorrect path (e.g. when the forum was installed on
example.com/forum, the directory must be included), - incorrectly included trailing slash (there should be no
/character at the end).
Admin CP
If it is only your Admin CP that looks broken, and you have changed the directory name for it (from admin/ to something else), you should also apply the change in the Configuration File.
To fix this, edit the inc/config.php file and find the $config['admin_dir'] line and change the value to the directory name of the admin directory:
$config['admin_dir'] = 'admin';