Mosaico can't create template or see existing templates

Question

WP 6.2 civi 5.61.1 or 5.61.4 or 5.62.2 formcore 5.62.1 After upgrade to mosaico 2.12 could not edit existing templates. Console 404 errors. I tried: installing & uninstalling, changing resource url to absolute, asset cache on, off, auto, making ext directory 777, uninstalling civigrant

Now upgraded to civi 5.62.2 and mosaico 3.1.1687383640. Mosaico page and "new template" page images below. Selecting new template just hangs with "loading"

Civi log shows: Jun 27 15:37:40 [error] Afform error: cannot process ~/afsearchMosaicoTemplateList/afsearchMosaicoTemplateList.aff.html: malformed entity name ()

Browser console has 404 for https://website/wp-content/uploads/civicrm/ext/uk.co.vedaconsulting.mosaico-2.8/css/mosaico-bootstrap.css?r=0uwJ4en_US

full console error below

At wit's end really & boss wants newletter out yesterday!

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Answer 1

Finally solved this. There was an .htaccess file in the wp-content/uploads/civicrm folder blocking all (direct) access to files in this directory. added below. Don't know how it got there - presume another extension?

content of file:

"<Files "*">

OpenLiteSpeed 1.4.38+

<IfModule !authz_core_module> RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Apache 2.2

<IfModule !authz_core_module> Order allow,deny Deny from all

Apache 2.4+

Require all denied

Answer 2

You say you have a 404 error, so:

• Is the file on the server where it's supposed to be?
• Have you checked both the file permissions and ownership? Are they correct?

After that, you're getting into some weird scenarios, like web server misconfiguration. It may be worth looking at the HTTP response headers to see whether the 404 is coming from WordPress or the web server.