Problem with icons (font awesome?)

I had a closer look in the browser console and I see errors about the fonts not downloading. Why would that be?:

downloadable font: download failed (font-family: "FontAwesome" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src index:2): status=2147746065 source: [site removed]/wp-content/themes/generatepress/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.woff?v=4.3.0 font-awesome.min.css:4:14

downloadable font: download failed (font-family: "FontAwesome" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src index:3): status=2147746065 source: [site removed]/wp-content/themes/generatepress/fonts/fontawesome-webfont.ttf?v=4.3.0 font-awesome.min.css:4:14

downloadable font: no supported format found (font-family: "FontAwesome" style:normal weight:normal stretch:normal src index:5) source: (end of source list) font-awesome.min.css:4:14

Hi there,

Maybe this will work?: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/19817459/firefox-font-face-with-local-file-downloadable-font-download-failed

I can find that setting in about:config, but can't edit it. But this would not be a good solution because the problem is the same across browsers.

So maybe a server setting needs to be changed? I've checked the mime types and both woff and ttf are added.

Can you link me to the site so I can see if the same thing happens to me? Is this only happening in Firefox?

I found the solution just minutes ago.

The culprit was an .htaccess in wp-content, which only allowed certain filetypes to be downloaded.

So, I changed it from

Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
<Files ~ ".(css|jpe?g|jpg|JPG|png|gif|js|pdf|swf|php|mp3|flv|html|xml)$">
Allow from all
</Files>

to

Order Allow,Deny
Deny from all
<Files ~ ".(css|jpe?g|jpg|JPG|png|gif|js|pdf|swf|php|mp3|flv|html|xml|woff|ttf|eot|woff2)$">
Allow from all
</Files>

and now it works :-)

I was led to this conclusion by this thread:
https://wordpress.org/support/topic/default-free-icon-not-showing#post-6594266

Nice! Thanks for sharing! It should be helpful to others :)