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I have installed a version of Sitecore Intranet Portal for one of our customers. We now have the problem that the stylesheet can't be loaded. After a while we get a 504 error. In Firefox everything is working fine as this will just load the old stylesheet that loaded before. The new stylesheet won't be loaded and just gives a gateway error. Could this be server side caching or whatever? If so, how can we test / solve this problem. The website is running on a Windows 2003 R2 server with 3gb ram. When i'm renaming the stylesheet i am able to load the stylesheet, but when i rename it back to it's old name it refuses to load and gives back the 504 error.

The name of the css file is:


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Have you got any proxies in between? –  Grizly Sep 3 '10 at 8:57
No there is no proxy in between. –  Younes Sep 3 '10 at 9:09
Normally, I would start by looking at the HTML and validating the URL to the CSS file. Then trying to download the CSS file in a browser while watching the logs to see what, if any error comes up on downloading that file. a 504 response indicates that the server itself is acting as a proxy. w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html This is all self contained within a single installation of IIS? –  Richard June Sep 4 '10 at 4:32
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You could try turning off usermode caching at the IIS end:

IIS7: http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/caching

IIS6: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/prodtechnol/WindowsServer2003/Library/IIS/0fc16fe7-be45-4033-a5aa-d7fda3c993ff.mspx

That way, if there is any "transparent" proxy in between, you will be able to control it.. somewhat.

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