CSS not loading with codeigniter

Question

IM trying to load some css directly within my view file, but its not working.

in my view file I have this.

<link href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>assets/css/core.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

The assets folder is at the same level as Application

when I view source on the webpage it shows me this

demo.example.com/assets/css/core.css

but when i click the link to see if it's working the url becomes this...

http://demo.example.com/admin/demo.example.com/assets/css/core.css

not sure what I am doing wrong? Should I be adding something to my htaccess file?

Thanks in advance.

Have you set the base url in config.php $config['base_url'] = 'http://demo.example.com/' — user4419336
– user4419336, Commented Sep 17, 2017 at 20:36
It is recommend now to set the base url in codeigniter 3 and up versions there is a comment above the base url which should read. — user4419336
– user4419336, Commented Sep 18, 2017 at 0:43

ourmandave · Accepted Answer · 2017-09-17 22:38:10Z

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You don't need to include the base_url() in your path because the webserver already knows your at www.example.com/admin and auto includes that.

Just use <link href="/assets/css/core.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

Edit: Or actually you need to include the http: prefix on your base_url like wolfgang1983 said.

See this answer on CSS absolute and relative link paths. https://stackoverflow.com/a/17621358/3585500

edited Sep 17, 2017 at 22:38

answered Sep 17, 2017 at 22:31

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3 Comments

joeb Over a year ago

it was the stupid http that wolfgang said. Irritating! Thanks to you both.

joeb Over a year ago

ugh, so now that i've added a sub path like, demo.example.com/admin the css breaks again. WTF am I doing wrong? apparantely its only a problem on chrome. Firefox works fine

joeb Over a year ago

in my situation the url helper functions link_tag fixed my issues

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