Yesterday my site unexpectedly stopped loading. I tracked it down to
the CSS file for the site. When I commented it out, the site was okay.
When I put it back in, it was not. I tried connecting to the server
via Dreamweaver and opening the CSS file and received a download
error. I noticed that it was getting to 14.6K / 15.2K before failing.
So I went in via the command line and deleted from the end of the CSS
file until it was smaller than 14.6K. The site now works like a charm,
minus my missing style elements.
Next I tried creating a second style sheet (styles2.css), appending
the ~50 lines I had deleted, and linking to it in addition to the
original file. Again, the site stopped responding. I started cutting
out style elements and once I got beneath a certain threshold, the
site would start loading. It didn't matter which elements I cut, just
as long as I didn't have too many.
Any insight into what is going on here? Is there some kind of size
limit of CSS files? This is Apache/PHP on a Fedora Core 3 Linux box.
Thank you,
Kevin