Setup and Manager Issues

I just had this PROBLEM!!!! My webhost had no idea what was up.

This FIX worked!!!

1) I opened the database with myphpadmin (or whatever it is called)

2) I navigated to the modx_system_settings

3) I CHANGED the boolean values of the keys of concern compress_js and compress_css (for good measure) to 0

4) I deleted the cache file in the cache - core\cache\system_settings\config.cache.php

Now my question - WHAT IS THE CAUSE OF THIS PROBLEM ... IT IS A MAJOR PROBLEM (lost 3 hours of time and missed a PRESS RELEASE DEADLINE AAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!).



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It's mostly a browser issue; if the browser doesn't like the compressed .js and .css files it won't use them.

I don't think this is browser issue. Had this problem on hosting I use (on localhost it was OK). My host use symbolic links (symlink) or something like that. With phpinfo() I have seen different path from what MODX set in core/config/config.inc.php after I run setup to update my configuration after moving to production server. But it didn't update all paths some stays symlinks values in the config. Changed those to normal paths and it works immediately.
Maybe this will help someone.