7.1B2 Outline Bug revisited

This is one of the only items preventing me from going live with my 7.1 migration. Please advise on how to fix!

The outline has a mind of its own. I can seem to get it to display properly under firefox intermittently:

Chrome never displays properly, and firefox sometimes looks like this:

IE looks like this, margins appear ok but thumbnails don't load for images or video:

I have tried a vanilla install on multiple servers using UNI template and these results are consistent. Once upon a time with B1, things worked perfectly across all browsers. What happened?

Dolphin has loads of those CSS bugs and visual glitches. It drives me insane.

Can you reproduce it on demo.boonex.com ? can you provide link to your site ?

Unfortunately, I have been unable to re-produce this on the boonex demo site. 

You can view my test site, but it will require a manual entry to your hosts file.

198.61.229.57 www.fowlnation.com

The problem on your site is that images dimensions aren't specified. 

I'm not sure what can cause this, it maybe tar your have no GD library enabled in PHP, try to check the following page:

Admin Panel -> Tools -> Host Tools

Here are the GD details from php.ini. Matches exactly to the test server I run at home where this issue is not occuring...

Alright - Brand new server:

PHP: 5.4.9 - OK
allow_url_fopen = On - OK
allow_url_include = Off - OK
magic_quotes_gpc = Off - OK
memory_limit = 134217728 - OK
post_max_size = 536870912 - OK
upload_max_filesize = 536870912 - OK
register_globals = Off - OK
safe_mode = Off - OK
disable_functions = - OK
php module: curl = curl - OK
php module: gd = gd - OK
php module: mbstring = mbstring - OK
php module: xsl = xsl - OK
php module: json = json - OK
php module: openssl = openssl - OK
php module: zip = zip - OK
php module: ftp = ftp - OK
MySQL: 5.5.28 - OK
Web-server: Apache/2.2.15 (CentOS)
rewrite_module - OK
OS: Linux ####### 2.6.32-279.el6.x86_64 #1 SMP Fri Jun 22 12:19:21 UTC 2012 x86_64

I've installed everything referenced here: http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/wiki/DolTech

Vanilla Dolphin 7.1.0 B2 with Avatars, Photos, Videos, Timeline & Spy installed. 

Same exact symptoms experienced as described in my original post. I have no idea what to look for next, but I'm leaning towards it being configuration with the host. 

What am I missing? I perform the same exact steps on the VPS that I do for my servers at home. It works at home, not online.

Are RSS blocks not working by any chance on the server where you are experiencing this problem ?

RSS blocks work fine, under all browsers.

If you'd like, I'd be happy to provide you with full access to my test server for further review. 

Goodness. 

Trying to make this environment more accessible to the outside world, I pointed www.d7tuts.com to this server & did another fresh dolphin install. Now, everything magically works. 

It looks like my frustration this entire time has been caused by some sort of callback to the current live host for my production site, of which my server did not have a local loopback for. So, when it tried to resolve it's own host name, it would actually resolve to the active site. I got this hunch after you mentioned the RSS feeds, because this has given me issues in the past with DNS resolution.

I think the issue is resolved. Can anything be done to avoid Dolphins requirement to resolve the hostname?

There are some callback to the server itself, for example RSS feeds.

Sometimes, such calls are restricted by the server configuration, or just some misconfigurations (like in your case) - it cause some functions (like RSS feeds) not working.

In Outline, there are also some calls to the server itself, however I believe that it's possible to eliminate such calls in Outline:

http://www.boonex.com/trac/dolphin/ticket/2968

Thanks Alex!