moodle not showing CSS and theme with linux server

Question

I\'m experiencing a problem regarding Moodle.

I\'ve made an install into a Linux server, but CSS and themes are not displaying so i have only plain text.

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Answer 1

Today i installed the latest moodle 3.2 on Linux Ubuntu server with Apache2 and PHP5.6. After successful installation, on the final screen no css or js was loading. pretty much similar to your issue. Getting ERR_CONTENT_DECODING_FAILED when url is hit

/theme/yui_combo.php?rollup/3.17.2/yui-moodlesimple-min.css 

I did some googling and found that its related to zlib compression and after enabling it in my php.ini file the problem is solved.

Locate your php.ini files, Go to php.ini file

sudo vi /etc/php/5.6/apache2/php.ini

Add or set below 2 lines

zlib.output_compression = on
zlib.output_compression_level = 6

Restart apache

sudo service apache2 restart

It will start working fine.

Related problem: https://moodle.org/mod/forum/discuss.php?d=324581#p1421502