Title: less css w/ multisite Last modified: August 20, 2016 --- # less css w/ multisite * [Timjwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timjwp/) * (@timjwp) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-css-w-multisite/) * I’m not sure if this is a multisite problem or a theme problem but I only experience the problem with this theme on multisite installs. * The theme is wordpress bootstrap from 320press. * When load the less css files I am seeing an XMLHttpRequest error. * You can see the error at [http://tracesofviolet.com](http://tracesofviolet.com) in your browser console. * TIA, Tim J Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) * [Chris Olbekson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c3mdigital/) * (@c3mdigital) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-css-w-multisite/#post-3059982) * > XMLHttpRequest cannot load [http://mainarray.com/uzsources/themes/wordpress-bootstrap/less/bootstrap.less](http://mainarray.com/uzsources/themes/wordpress-bootstrap/less/bootstrap.less). > Origin [http://tracesofviolet.com](http://tracesofviolet.com) is not allowed > by Access-Control-Allow-Origin. > Uncaught Error: NETWORK_ERR: XMLHttpRequest > Exception 101 less-1.3.0.min.js:8 Failed to load resource: the server responded > with a status of 403 (Forbidden) [http://mainarray.com/?dm=d464f9a576471eb6022ae43976fb42b5&action=load&blogid=3&siteid=1&t=2028029890&back=http%3A%2F%2Ftracesofviolet.com%2F](http://mainarray.com/?dm=d464f9a576471eb6022ae43976fb42b5&action=load&blogid=3&siteid=1&t=2028029890&back=http%3A%2F%2Ftracesofviolet.com%2F) * It looks like the errors are mainly [Access Control Allow Origin](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1653308/access-control-allow-origin-multiple-origin-domains) because the theme is pulling the .less files from the mainarray.com domain. * The theme is using [get_template_directory_uri()](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/get_template_directory_uri). To load the stylesheets which should return the current sites domain as the base but they are loading from the mainarray.com domain. Also to note the wp-content directory has been changed to uzsources. Are you following the [Codex guidelines for moving wp-content](http://codex.wordpress.org/Editing_wp-config.php#Moving_wp-content)? * You can fix this by adding the following line to your virtual host file * `Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://mainarray.com"` `Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin "http://tracesofviolet.com"` * The root of the problem is the wrong domain being called from get_template_directory_uri. * Thread Starter [Timjwp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timjwp/) * (@timjwp) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-css-w-multisite/#post-3060013) * Thanks for the response Chris. * I’m not sure you are correct. All css and js files are loaded within the theme using get_template_directory_uri() but only the less file is throwing an error. I think it has something to do with how less is generated. * > The theme is using get_template_directory_uri(). To load the stylesheets which > should return the current sites domain as the base but they are loading from > the mainarray.com domain. * As stated this is multisite install. My other sites and themes on this install load styles, images etc. from mainarray.com (the domain which WordPress MU is installed on) without error. * > Also to note the wp-content directory has been changed to uzsources. Are you > following the Codex guidelines for moving wp-content? * The content directory was renamed using the Better WP Security plugin which has never been a problem before and again, if it were the cause, I would be seeing the error on other sites on the network. However, before I came here I did disable all my plugins just in case. * > You can fix this by adding the following line to your virtual host file > Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin “[http://mainarray.com”](http://mainarray.com”); > > Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin “[http://tracesofviolet.com”](http://tracesofviolet.com”); * Shouldn’t this be avoided for security? * Thanks * [Chris Olbekson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c3mdigital/) * (@c3mdigital) * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-css-w-multisite/#post-3060057) * Did a little research on the way the less.js parses the .less files. It is using a XMLHttpRequest which basically requires that the files are loaded from the same domain name or “Origin” as the site they are loaded on. * As the Header add Access-Control-Allow-Origin doesn’t work you have 2 options. The first is to hard code the less files in the themes header.php * ``` ``` * > As stated this is multisite install. My other sites and themes on this install > load styles, images etc. from mainarray.com (the domain which WordPress MU > is installed on) without error. * This is fine for CSS, javascript and other static files but won’t work for the. less files. * The file requests should come from the same domain. You can fix this by going to your network admin sites menu under the site settings tab and add [http://tracesofviolet.com/](http://tracesofviolet.com/) as the Siteurl. Viewing 3 replies - 1 through 3 (of 3 total) The topic ‘less css w/ multisite’ is closed to new replies. ## Tags * [less css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/less-css/) * [multisite](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/multisite/) * [wordpress bootstrap](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/wordpress-bootstrap/) * In: [Networking WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/multisite/) * 3 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Chris Olbekson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c3mdigital/) * Last activity: [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/less-css-w-multisite/#post-3060057) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics