Stylesheets problem

[prasad agarwal]

Hi,

I have a web application Development and Production running on the same Websphere application server.
Production runs on HTTPS where as Development runs on HTTP.

The issue is: everything works absolutely perfect on Production where as in Development - the stylesheets do not load/apply properly most of the times but they do work fine sometimes like in the weekend when very few people login...

Is the problem because of some proxy setting or proxy firewall or Apache (web server) setting??

I really appreciate your help.
Thanks

[Les Morgan]

prasad agarwal wrote:
but they do work fine sometimes like in the weekend when very few people login

As you point out they seem to work ok when there are not very many people on. Is that people on either side, or just the dev side of the world?

In any case it shows a resource problem. I'd get with the Admin for the box and take a look at configurations for each environment, dev and prod, and what happens as people login. It sounds like you do not have a problem in production, so your dev side is being throttled down as a sacrifice to ensure production. There may not be a good solution to this as long as both have to run on the same box. Characteristically, it is the RAM available that is the problem causing culprit.

But without seeing what you have, I am guessing and overlaying what I've had happen in my own situations. Get with the box Admin and check to see what is happening, it's the only way you may come to a solution.

[prasad agarwal]

Les Morgan, Thanks a lot for your response.

When I said "not very many people on" it means on either side. I mean development is only for a very few people who access it.
I would say, when traffic at proxy is less, then development works fine...

I do all the config too (of course along with coding). On our Apache/Websphere set up, in case of production, since it is running on SSL, it is running on a specific IP address (IP based virtual host) where as development along with 3 more applications run on a different IP address (Name based virtual hosts).
All applications run fine regarding stylesheets except development !

Now since we are planning to move to new Websphere 8.x, I need to give access to the development for more people to test which is the reason why I am now trying to find and fix the problem.

Any help would be appreciated.
My idea is: if I can fix the stylesheets load problem then I will give access to development for testing otherwise I need to create production version along with SSL for testing on new Websphere 8.x.

One main point though is: In both Apache/Websphere 6.x (on one system - present Production) and Apache/Websphere 8.x (on another system - plan to migrate to), all applications run fine expect Development of the application which has a Production version run on SSL. I mean on 2 different systems, same thing happening ?? Something definitely is common in both cases...
Is it because, the browser caches the css files from production and when development tries to access, it fails? 3 other applications running don't have any development versions and they work fine.

Thanks again.

[prasad agarwal]

I am doing a little bit more research using Chrome browser and network monitoring...
You know in Production, I mostly get status=200 (from cache) where as in development sometimes status=200 where as sometimes it is 304 (from cache).
Maybe is it because of this, there is a problem?