Do not installed Webui under a directory with leading dot (.)

[w-e-w]

If you're seeing this

make sure you did not place your webui install under a directory or subdirectory that has a leading dot (.)

example

B:\Downloads\.subdir\sd.webui
             ^

the reason
since Gradio version 3.33.0, they add a new security feature that blocks files under a dot directory to be served

The /file= route no longer allows accessing dotfiles or files in "dot directories" by @akx in gradio-app/gradio#4303

in webui 1.6.0 we switch from Gradio 3.32.0 -> 3.41.2, and so the browser will not be able to access webui files if it is installed under a dot dir

related issues
#12474 (comment)
vladmandic/automatic#2106

note this may also has an effect on certain extensions, if they have files that are intend to be served but are named with a leading dot

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another cause of CSS not loading is if you launch webui from a different work directory then webui root
#13210 (this fix in in dev branch but not yet in master)
so if you are experiencing similar issue to above but webui is not installed under a dot dir make sure the wrok dir is webui root

[Cloudwalk9]

Are you fucking kidding me? I've been scratching my head for well over a month and couldn't use 1.6.0 because of this, not knowing why. Thank you so much.

[mikelpr]

should be on the README

[Yasand123]

This is fixed in v4 branch gradio-app/gradio#6128

[Potato22]

still broken after doing git clean and pull, UI is unresponsive and is now attempting to reinstall everything, as painful as it sounds.

[w-e-w]

another cause of CSS not loading is if you launch webui from a different work directory then webui root
#13210 (this fix in in dev branch but not yet in master)
so if you are experiencing similar issue to above but webui is not installed under a dot dir make sure the wrok dir is webui root

[RichardTJamison]

I seem to be having this issue after a recent update, but I dont have anything under a ./ directory to my knowledge, how do I make sure my work directory is correct?

Edit: It would seem its tied to what port I'm using. 7860 is buggy while 7861 works perfectly fine. I have no idea what could be causing this because 7860 is the default and it only starts on 7861 when I'm running KohayaSS on 7860.

[lawchingman]

If you're seeing this

make sure you did not place your webui install under a directory or subdirectory that has a leading dot (.)

example

B:\Downloads\.subdir\sd.webui
             ^

the reason since Gradio version 3.33.0, they add a new security feature that blocks files under a dot directory to be served

The /file= route no longer allows accessing dotfiles or files in "dot directories" by @akx in gradio-app/gradio#4303

in webui 1.6.0 we switch from Gradio 3.32.0 -> 3.41.2, and so the browser will not be able to access webui files if it is installed under a dot dir

related issues #12474 (comment) vladmandic/automatic#2106

note this may also has an effect on certain extensions, if they have files that are intend to be served but are named with a leading dot

another cause of CSS not loading is if you launch webui from a different work directory then webui root #13210 (this fix in in dev branch but not yet in master) so if you are experiencing similar issue to above but webui is not installed under a dot dir make sure the wrok dir is webui root

[elzup]

Searchable: Adding this error message to help others find this issue

Failed to load resource: the server responded with a status of 403 (Forbidden)

(I moved the directory outside of .ghq/github.com, and it resolved the issue.)