# Themes not being applied 0.16.1 **URL:** \ **Category:** Support\ **Created:** [September 25, 2022, 8:47am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/themes-not-being-applied-0-16-1/1486 "2022-09-25T08:47:47Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![driftavalii](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/driftavalii/32/834_2.png) [@driftavalii](https://zola.discourse.group/u/driftavalii)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2022, 8:47am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/themes-not-being-applied-0-16-1/1486/1 "2022-09-25T08:47:47Z")
Running `zola serve` locally generates the site how I would expect it to look but when deployed to netlify, the display is all wrong (it doesn’t seem the theme is applied). I tried `zola build` and used the caddy webserver to serve the public folder generated and I get similar results to netlify. I’ve followed the config.toml guidance to put theme before the dicts (extra) and have even tried copying the theme files into my main project but the theme is still not applied when served through netlify or caddy webserver. Only `zola serve` produces the right display ---
**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 9:30am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/themes-not-being-applied-0-16-1/1486/2 "2022-09-26T09:30:56Z")
`zola serve` and `zola build` call the same code, do you have an example repo I can look at? ---
**Author:** ![vcrn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@vcrn](https://zola.discourse.group/u/vcrn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 4:08pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/themes-not-being-applied-0-16-1/1486/3 "2022-09-26T16:08:39Z")
Same here. Here’s my repo [GitHub - vcrn/index45-site](https://github.com/vcrn/index45-site), and here’s how it turns out: [index45.com](http://index45.com). Here’s how it’s generated locally: ![index45](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/free1/uploads/zola1/original/1X/072b7041e07a7d26b531726e363c90f0681320b2.png) ---
**Author:** ![keats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/34f0e0/32.png) [@keats](https://zola.discourse.group/u/keats)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 6:16pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/themes-not-being-applied-0-16-1/1486/4 "2022-09-26T18:16:32Z")
You don’t have a TLD in your base url: [index45-site/config.toml at main · vcrn/index45-site · GitHub](https://github.com/vcrn/index45-site/blob/main/config.toml#L2) ---
**Author:** ![vcrn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/22d042/32.png) [@vcrn](https://zola.discourse.group/u/vcrn)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 6:34pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/themes-not-being-applied-0-16-1/1486/5 "2022-09-26T18:34:17Z")
Thank you so much! It also solved another bug I couldn’t figure out. And thank you for all the work on Zola, it’s great! ---
**Author:** ![driftavalii](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/driftavalii/32/834_2.png) [@driftavalii](https://zola.discourse.group/u/driftavalii)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 9:55pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/themes-not-being-applied-0-16-1/1486/6 "2022-09-26T21:55:04Z")
hi Keats, this is the [repo](https://github.com/driftavalii/inveterate-novitiate) I am using with the corresponding site [here](https://deft-dodol-d91239.netlify.app/)(dns may still be propagating for the fqdn inveteratenovitiate\_dot\_com). I do seem to have base\_url configured in `config.toml`. ---
**Author:** ![driftavalii](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/zola.discourse.group/driftavalii/32/834_2.png) [@driftavalii](https://zola.discourse.group/u/driftavalii)\ **Post date:** [September 26, 2022, 10:44pm UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/themes-not-being-applied-0-16-1/1486/7 "2022-09-26T22:44:52Z")
Seems it got resolved once DNS propagated.