Portal theme fails to load after EHP6 upgrade. URL wrongly converted to lower case

[Former Member]

Hi,

We have a custom webdynpro for abap application that use the portal theme for styling.

After the upgrade EHP6, the theme is no longer working and none of the ui elements get any styling (css).

The stylesheet is set through Stylesheet URI (WDTHEMEROOT) property in the application configuration

The url is https://<hostname>/irj/portalapps/com.sap.portal.design.urdesigndata/themes/portal/customer/SandTTheme

Here SandTTheme is the name of the theme in the portal.

Force Use of External Stylesheet (WDFORCEEXTERNALSTYLESHEET) is set to true.

By doing a HTTP trace when testing the Webdynpro we see that the source of the problems is that the url is converted to all lower caps.

Instead of using the name in the url SandTTheme, it uses sandttheme.

This results in a HTTP 404 not found error from the portal and therefore no stylesheet is loaded.

Here is the important part of the HTTP trace:

GET /irj/portalapps/com.sap.portal.design.urdesigndata/themes/portal/customer/sandttheme/ls/ls_ie6.css?201204122039 HTTP/1.1
Accept: */*
HTTP/1.1 404 Not Found
Server: SAP J2EE Engine/7.02

The url WD for ABAP should have used /irj/portalapps/com.sap.portal.design.urdesigndata/themes/portal/customer/SandTTheme/ls/ls_ie6.css?201204122039  works correctly and results in a HTTP 200.

Is there any know resolution to this ?

PS Note 1446099 is not relevant in this case

(will submit an OSS also soon)

[Former Member · Accepted solution]

Hi,

We've have created a theme with name in all lower case and confirm that it works better (it least it is loaded).

However, we still get some problems with search helps, that may be related to the portal being a lower version than the backend.

OSS support didn't give us much help, so we've now reverted to SAP standard theme in the backend.

Regards

Dagfinn