Thread:Project:Support desk/CSS not working

Hi, I just updated to mw 1.23.6

and my wiki now renders without any CSS. no theme works, and all i see is unstyled HTML content (blue underlinks, etc)

i've looked at this : https://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Project:Support_desk#x.5BRESOLVED.5D_CSS_is_not_loading_properly_9435

but it doesn't seem to be this.

i'm running mediawiki on a MAMP-based apache/mysql setup, and haven't had any problems before.

any help would be appreciated, i'm quite stuck.

i've tried different browsers (ff, safari, chrome) and i see the same thing everywhere.

i've seen comments that i should do various things to a .htaccess file

is this a .htaccess at the document root of the apache server? or should it live in the same folder as LocalSettings.php?

here are my settings:

Installed software Product 	Version MediaWiki 	1.23.6 PHP 	5.6.2 (apache2handler) MySQL 	5.5.38

Entry point URLs Entry point	URL Article path	/wiki/index.php/$1 Script path	/wiki index.php	/wiki/index.php api.php	/wiki/api.php load.php	/wiki/load.php