# Css not found error **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 6, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745 "2017-07-06T12:40:55Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![sparky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/sparky/32/317_2.png) [@sparky](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/sparky)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 12:40pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745/1 "2017-07-06T12:40:55Z")
Dunno whats happening here but… On ‘Jekyll Serve --watch’ I have just noticed I’m getting the following error -`ERROR`/\_sass/Plugins/custom/footer/\_footer.scss’ not found.` along with same error for several other files in my bourbon/base/neat folders… (so I have obviously made a change back sometime ago but never realised) However… my structure - all seems tickety [link to my github](https://github.com/chipsandcurrysauce/fresh-start/tree/master/_sass) and likewise the various @import structures within app.sass and custom.scss look ok. The odd thing though is that the page is rendering as it should on localhost which as far as I can make out it shouldn’t, if serve says files are not found? so - If everything is rendering correctly, is this message something I should bother about or just live with it? Here’s the full error so you see what I mean… It’s not reporting _all_ the bourbon/base fies etc missing so its obviously going to the correct folders on serve… [2017-07-06 13:47:47] ERROR `/_sass/Plugins/base/_buttons.scss' not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR`/\_sass/Plugins/base/\_variables.scss’ not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR `/_sass/Plugins/bourbon/bourbon/settings/_settings.scss' not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR`/\_sass/Plugins/base/\_lists.scss’ not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR `/_sass/Plugins/base/_forms.scss' not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR`/\_sass/Plugins/base/\_layout.scss’ not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR `/_sass/Plugins/base/_tables.scss' not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR`/\_sass/Plugins/base/\_typography.scss’ not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR `/_sass/Plugins/base/_media.scss' not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR`/\_sass/Plugins/custom/footer/\_footer.scss’ not found. [2017-07-06 13:47:48] ERROR `/\_sass/Plugins/bourbon/bourbon/library/\_modular-scale.scss’ not found. ---
**Author:** ![mmistakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/mmistakes/32/2169_2.png) [@mmistakes](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/mmistakes)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:24pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745/2 "2017-07-06T15:24:09Z")
Took a quick look at your repo and everything looks good to me. Also cloned your repo and tried to build it and didn’t get any of those Sass partial not found errors you included above. I don’t think you’re doing anything wrong. Maybe a gem updated recently and is reporting false errors? Do you see the same errors when you run `jekyll build`? I see you have a `Gemfile`… what happens if you use `bundle exec jekyll serve --watch` instead? ---
**Author:** ![sparky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/sparky/32/317_2.png) [@sparky](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/sparky)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:29pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745/3 "2017-07-06T15:29:34Z")
no idea bud… Done build exec that didn’t give any errors, read up all day on google etc and found peeps had problems similar with site baseurl but I tried all that and no changes… I’ve given up and started again as it was a fresh install… but with everthing apparantly the same and … well this time its working… odd. Your probably on the right track though with the gems I imagine because of course now ive installed the bundle again and were all clear. And as I’m a noob then getting to grips and faster with fresh installs is always good… Tnx for taking the time out to peek… least I know I was bangin my head for no reason… Trials and tribulations… Onward 'n upwards 😃 ---
**Author:** ![mmistakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/mmistakes/32/2169_2.png) [@mmistakes](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/mmistakes)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2017, 3:42pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745/4 "2017-07-06T15:42:37Z")
`bundle exec` is always a good idea. My guess is the wrong Sass gem was being used that was causing false errors. ---
**Author:** ![sparky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/sparky/32/317_2.png) [@sparky](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/sparky)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 1:40pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745/5 "2017-07-07T13:40:36Z")
Aha… got the little bugger… So… I thought “I’m not happy with this, theres an error somewhere…” so… started all over again cos I love to tinker 😃 Ive found the culprit… Layout: default. What Ive done is create a new Jekyll with my own folders layout etc, then in this latest git you can see have added a custom footer in plugins/custom. Adding this to the now blank home.html works but doesn’t show the css rendered… so I added back into the yaml layout:default and wazaaaaa! Theres the error again. and that’s with or without `bundle exec` so now I have to work out why… as of course, you guessed it… when I have layout : default there then the css renders… but yet that also causes the error saying it’s not there! lol so if you have nothing else to do today and feel like a nosey at all… Here’s another repo of where I’m at so far… 🙂 [Another repo…](https://github.com/chipsandcurrysauce/from-scratch) - commit no4 ---
**Author:** ![sparky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/sparky/32/317_2.png) [@sparky](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/sparky)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 1:56pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745/6 "2017-07-07T13:56:35Z")
its something in “Head.html” Because if I remove all the yaml from home.html so it looks like a regular html page… [home.html without Yaml](https://github.com/chipsandcurrysauce/from-scratch/commit/a925bceccd8130450eac5724927e9e4d4339c6ea) - commit no 5 Then the css renders correctly but the error appears… ---
**Author:** ![sparky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/sparky/32/317_2.png) [@sparky](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/sparky)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 2:42pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745/7 "2017-07-07T14:42:44Z")
doin my head in this… heres a quick youtube snapshot Ive just uploaded so you can see what I mean. [Jekyll problem.](https://youtu.be/kZEareMKYlw) ---
**Author:** ![mmistakes](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/mmistakes/32/2169_2.png) [@mmistakes](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/mmistakes)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 4:18pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745/8 "2017-07-07T16:18:09Z")
Couple of things to investigate: **1.** All of your `_layouts` except `page.html` are missing the YAML `---` blocks. These are needed by Jekyll so I would add them in, even if blank to rule out any weirdness. ```auto --- --- ``` **2.** Looks like you’re using the Sass CLI to generate your `.css` instead of Jekyll. Is this correct? If so then I would rename `_sass` to something else in case Jekyll is trying to process your Sass for you and getting confused. Especially since you’re missing `---` Front Matter blocks and all that. What I would suggest is keep all your partials in `_sass` and move `_sass/app.sass` to `css/app.sass`. And add the Front Matter blocks before the `@import` ```auto --- --- ``` You can then remove `style.css` and `style.map`, rename `app.sass` to `style.sass` and just let Jekyll build your CSS from Sass. If done correctly you’ll end up with `_site/css/style.css`. It’ll probably be uncompressed, but you can change that by adding the relevant flags to Jekyll’s \_config.yml ---
**Author:** ![sparky](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/sparky/32/317_2.png) [@sparky](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/sparky)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2017, 5:16pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-not-found-error/745/9 "2017-07-07T17:16:23Z")
I can’t ty enough for that MM… Works like a charm. \o/ I was wondering about that too… I kept on trying to add `---` to my original app.sass and kept getting errors when I saved it… Shows ya… wrong folder huh? 😉 Commited to git and ready to crack on and let Jeckyll take care of the sass… I can start playing now the foundations are right… Tnx so much.