Thread:Project:Support desk/New installed MediaWiki looks "a little weird" - no images at all only text and links/reply (6)

Hi!

This problem in most cases is caused by the fact that requests to load.php are redirected to the MediaWiki main PHP file, which finally returns a MediaWiki page. The expected output however are CSS styles.

To fix the issue you have to add a RewriteRule in the file .htaccess. Change your .htaccess file to make sure that calls to load.php (and to api.php btw.) are not rewritten.

RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^(api|load)\.php - [L] ...

After that load.php should return the right contents and your wiki should be styled.