Thread

whenever i try to view the images in my images directory, i get a 404. what am i doing wrong here? i have my structure as is…and from my css files, any background images im targeting are not showing.

from my main layout file

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?=base_url();?>static/css/master.css" type="text/css" media="screen"/>

when viewing source,

<a href="http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/static/css/master.css">http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/static/css/master.css</a>

my directory structure, I have attempted moving the static folder inside of application, but to no avail.
/myFinance
-/application
-/system
-/static
—/css

my baseURL as defined in config,

<a href="http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/">http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/</a>

 
Hi jvittetoe,

Immediately before your link statement try this:

<?php
    echo '
site_url() --> ' .site_url();
    echo '
base_url() --> ' .base_url();
    echo '
getcwd() ----> ' .getcwd();
    echo '
link path --->'  .base_url() .'static/css/master.css';
    die;
  ?>

Cheers,

John_Betong
 

is your application within the root directory on the server (htdocs, webroot, etc)? If so, you are referencing a directory name pr0jects that doesn’t exist.

If not, possibly try altering your file structure and placing the CSS and images in within an assets folder that you can reference from root. It makes your relative URLs much simpler:

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/assets/css/style.css" media="all" />
/assets/img/thumb.jpg

site_url()—> http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/
base_url()—> http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/
getcwd()——> /Users/joshvittetoe/_wwwroot/pr0jects/myFinance
link path—->http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/static/css/master.css

that is what i get…

my localhost root directory is /_wwwroot/

inside there i have numerous folders including a projects directory which is my repository for any applications or tests that i conduct which are given their own folders inside their, like /myFinance/

it should be to where i can have an individual css directory for an app and shouldn’t need to reside one level up, in my root.

when i do navigate to the /pr0jects/myFi…/static/ directory, im given a 404, it seems my app is thinking im trying to call a controller, i cant even navigate to the actual css file without showing a 404.

Sounds like you jacked up your .htaccess file. You should have a rewrite exception in there to keep requests for your static subdirectory from going to index.php.

Similar to:

RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|static|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

site_url()—> http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/
base_url()—> http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/
getcwd()——> /Users/joshvittetoe/_wwwroot/pr0jects/myFinance
link path—->http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/static/css/master.css

that is what i get…

my localhost root directory is /_wwwroot/

inside there i have numerous folders including a projects directory which is my repository for any applications or tests that i conduct which are given their own folders inside their, like /myFinance/

it should be to where i can have an individual css directory for an app and shouldn’t need to reside one level up, in my root.

when i do navigate to the /pr0jects/myFi…/static/ directory, im given a 404, it seems my app is thinking im trying to call a controller, i cant even navigate to the actual css file without showing a 404.

Hi jvittetoe,

What happens when you type this into your browser?

http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/static/css/master.css

 

 
If that displays your CSS file Ok then this is the magic line that I use to call a background image which resides in the same directory.

body {background:#ffffff url(grad_green.jpg) 0 0 repeat-x; color:#000}

 

 
I try to work from simple code/image paths that work then try other more complicated paths.

Cheers,

John_Betong
 

Thanks! Helped me as well.

Hi jvittetoe,

What happens when you type this into your browser?

http://localhost/pr0jects/myFinance/static/css/master.css

 

i get a CI 404 error, here is what my htaccess file reads, it is located in my, localhost/projects/myFinance/ directory,  along side my application, system and static folders

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|js|images|system\/plugins|robots\.txt|css\/)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Like I said, you are not making an exception for your static directory - therefore, CI is trying to find a controller named static, a method named css, and passing a paramter of master.css

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|js|images|systems\/plugins|static|robots\.txt|css\/)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

sweet bro, sorry i completely overlooked your original post for that fix. htaccess just confuses me, i hardly know what im doing with it.

thx walesmd.. u make all js/css magic keep alive in CI.

letso if i got sub directory for my css.. let say..

/myFinance
-/application
-/system
-/static
—/css
—-/csssub

i got to add csssub at .htaccess files huh?

<IfModule mod_rewrite.c>
RewriteEngine on
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|js|images|systems\/plugins|static|csssub|robots\.txt|css\/)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]
</IfModule>

Helped me too - and I also overlooked the first post too - thanks

Hi, i have the same problem, but not resolved.

htaccess content :

Options +FollowSymLinks
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|user_guide|static|images|robots\.txt)
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ /index.php/$1 [L]

My Static is like here

static
  \blueprint\
    \screen.css
    \print.css
    \ie.css

my view

<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>static/blueprint/screen.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"/>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>static/blueprint/print.css" type="text/css" media="print"/>
<!--[if lt IE 8]><link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>static/blueprint/ie.css" type="text/css" media="screen, projection"/><![endif]-->

and

<?php
    echo '
site_url() --> ' .site_url();
    echo '
base_url() --> ' .base_url();
    echo '
getcwd() ----> ' .getcwd();
    echo '
link path --->'  .base_url() .'static/blueprint/screen.css';
    die;
  ?>

give me this

site_url()—> mysite.com/index.php
base_url()—> mysite.com/
getcwd()——> /mysite.429/clican/www
link path—->mysite.com/static/blueprint/screen.css

if i go to mysite.com/static/blueprint/screen.css,
firefox display the css content

but when i use firebug, it’s display error 404.

I’m using CI 2.0.2 and the autoload have

$autoload[‘helper’] = array(‘url’);

What’s i missing ?