Symfony admin generator generated module has no style

Question

I am using Symfony 1.31 for a brand new project. I have just created a module in the backend app, using the admin generator. To my suprise, it seems no theme ((At all) has been applied to the pages. As I mentioned before, this si abrand new project - I have not even modified the /app/backend/layout.php file yet.

I rember having a similar problem before - I dont remmber how I solved it (I think I had to run a task or copy some files over to the /web folder before the styles/images etc came into efect. Can anyone refresh my memory?

Answer 1

Hi,

Check your apache configuration and files permissions, and especially the alias to the /sf/ subdirectory. It seems that the .css file corresponding to sf_admin pages are not accessible. You can fix it by adding an Alias to your virtualhost configuration, or allowing symlinks.

(By the way, hint: check your html source, find out the .css url, and try to access it directly with your browser)

Answer 2

You might need to run the plugin:publish-assets command:

php symfony plugin:publish-assets

This will create symlinks to your plugins' web/ directory inside your project's web/, thus enabling access to sfDoctrinePlugin's (or propel depending what ORM you use) admin-gen styles.