Looks like a permissions issue. Take a look at the source html (through firebug or similar) an check if some of the css/javascript referenced url's are throwing exceptions.

Definately looks like a file path issue, are you sure its not in a virtaul directory?

Hi Adam,  Morten, thanx 4 yr reply.

I am a newbee to all this. can you advise me on how to check for javasscript exceptions when viewing source.

thanx

Hi Sajid,

I had exactly the same screen when I was denying Umbraco access to the folder /umbraco via a redirection (yeah, that went pretty bad, but hey! :).Could be that not even the IUSR has access to /umbraco?

I use mostly the awesome Firebug for JS debugging, it's an add-on for Firefox and you can find it here. However by now pretty much every browser has some kind of development environment where you can get the JS error messages and probably do a lot of other awesome stuff.

Hope that helps,
Sascha

"Looks like a permissions issue. Take a look at the source html (through firebug or similar) an check if some of the css/javascript referenced url's are throwing exceptions."

A better solution must be that the Umbraco installation part gets better and indentify this and other permission issues and give the user a correct message of the problem, right?

Hey Guys, thanx 4 yr replies.

I've checked the source via viewssource in chrome what am i looking for?  when u say url's are throwing exceptions.

thanx

I had something similar on my localhost.

What Sascha wrote is very likely your problem. That the IUSR doesn't have the rights to access some of the folders needed to load the backend stylesheet

Hi everyone,

got the problem fixed. 

what I did was to download a new version of v4.5.1.  I also forgot to clear the unblock option on the zip file last time.

and extracted on local machine and re-ftp'd to my host.

all seems well now.

thanks 4 all who helped.

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