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Hi folks,

I’m working on creating an exact replica, delta the domain name, of our ExpressionEngine enabled site. This will be strictly for development purposes where we will modify the website as we see fit, then later copy it back into production.

So far the process has gone fairly smoothly minus one issue. After changing the site_url variable to the new URL, the cached version of our CSS is omitting a slash in the absolute URLs. Meaning, I’m seeing stuff like this:

http:/foo.example.com/some/stuff/

This seems to only be happening in the .v.somenumber css implementation. I’m assuming this is just a simple cache. If I reference say

http://foo.example.com/?css=templategroup/style.css the URLs are perfect. If I reference:

http://foo.example.com/?css=templategroup/style.css.v.1234132412 the URLs are broken.

I’ve tried clearing all cache from the administrative Utilities panel. No go there.

Anyhow, hoping to get some insight into the issue. I’m kind of at a loss of stuff to Google / search the forums for at this point.

Thanks!

You should not reference such a .css directly, leave that to EE. If you want a direct link, use

<a href="http://foo.example.com/index.php/templategroup/style.css">http://foo.example.com/index.php/templategroup/style.css</a>

Otherwise, use

{stylesheet=templategroup/style.css}

Hi Ingmar,

I’m not referencing my css as such. I was just using that as an example into hoping someone would know the real problem. The CSS is being referenced like this:

<link rel=‘stylesheet’ href=’{stylesheet=mytplgroup/style.css}’ type=‘text/css’ media=‘screen’ />

When expanded by EE, it uses http:/ instead of http://

check your Admin -> System Preferences -> General Configuration -> URL to the root directory of your site setting