Per Jessen:
It sounds like the CSS style sheets aren't being served correctly.
Yes, that seems to be the problem. I'm looking for a solution ... A recursive grep for css in /etc/apache2 gives the same result for both servers: conf.d/wordpress.conf: # Akismet CSS and JS conf.d/wordpress.conf: <FilesMatch "^(form|akismet)\.(css|js)$"> mime.types:# application/vnd.ericsson.quickcall mime.types:text/css css CSSL the wordpress.conf file is from the opensuse wordpress rpm. Deactivating it makes no difference I assume that all css files are served from the local server? Can it be a php configuration question? Thanks Hermann-Josef Beckers N�����r��y隊Z)z{.�ﮞ˛���m�)z{.��+�: �{Zr�az�'z��j)h���Ǿ� ޮ�^�ˬz��