Question

I can’t get font-awesome to display properly in firefox, even in localhost. I’m receiving the following cross domain error:

Timestamp: 08/08/2012 02:49:37 PM
Error: downloadable font: download failed (font-family: "FontAwesome" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal     `src index:2): bad URI or cross-site access not allowed
source: http://localhost:3000/djpsite/baseadmin/font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf
Source File: http://localhost:3000/djpsite/baseadmin/css/font-awesome.css
Line: 0
Source Code:
@font-face {   font-family: "FontAwesome";   font-style: normal;   font-weight: normal;   src: url("../font/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix") format("embedded-opentype"), url("../font/fontawesome-webfont.woff") format("woff"), url("../font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf") format("truetype"), url("../font/fontawesome-webfont.svg#FontAwesome") format("svg"); }

I used double quotes as suggested by this post: firefox @font-face fail with fontawesome but that didn’t resolve the problem.

Everything works fine in Chrome; any suggestions?

Beyond fixing the problem in Chrome, how should I vend font-awesome over a CDN given this restriction: http://dev.w3.org/csswg/css3-fonts/#default-same-origin-restriction?

Below is the code from my CSS file:

@font-face {
    font-family: 'FontAwesome';
    src: url("../font/fontawesome-webfont.eot");
    src: url("../font/fontawesome-webfont.eot?#iefix") format('embedded-opentype'),
    url("../font/fontawesome-webfont.woff") format('woff'),
    url("../font/fontawesome-webfont.ttf") format('truetype'),
    url("../font/fontawesome-webfont.svg#FontAwesome") format('svg');
    font-weight: normal;
    font-style: normal;
}

Thanks for your help!

Answer 1

This solved the Firefox cross domain font issue for me (which causes the font to not load in Firefox). Just add the following to .htaccess or directly to apache config:

<FilesMatch "\.(ttf|otf|eot|woff)$">
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
  </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

There is a webpage with instructions on how to set up CORS with different servers:
https://enable-cors.org/server.html