I'm developing a website for my conclusion work at school. I'm using XAMPP v3.2.1. to localhost the site.
My site's folder's are configured just like this in htdocs folder:
ibnm
css
js
img
...
site
about
midia
...
includes.php
index.php (HOME PAGE)
My problem starts here: on index.php I'm including includes.php, that's a simple file with define() functions to the folders of my site so I can print the constant on the HTML tags of the site as URL (just like below)
//includes.php
<?php
define("css", "localhost/ibnm/css");
?>
//index.php
<?php
include_once("includes.php");
?>
<link href="<?= css; ?>/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">
But when I do this, the CSS don't function. When I see an <a> tag with the previously defined URL on page it looks like
localhost/ibnm/site/localhost/ibnm/css
instead of
localhost/ibnm/css
It's confunsing 'cause if the <a> tag doesn't have any value (href="") it output localhost/ibnm/site/.
What can be wrong? XAMPP or coding?
Any url is not starts with http then browser will assume that its relative path so it will append to your current path, thats why your getting localhost/ibnm/site/localhost/ibnm/css.
And one small correction in your code, its not good idea to hard code server name in the code, better to get server name dynamically. So that you no need to change while deploying your site in real server.
//includes.php
<?php
define("css", $host='http://'.$_SERVER['SERVER_NAME'].'/ibnm/css');
?>
This is because the browser think localhost is a folder, and then do this ontop of the current path, to fix is just add http:// before the localhost
define("css", "http://localhost/ibnm/css");
Instead of using absolute path you can just add one slash before CSS path -
<link href="/<?= css; ?>/bootstrap.css" rel="stylesheet">
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Disclaimer: I haven't got a clue what I'm doing with PHP I'm just playing around with it.
I have my css file in a folder named CSS and then my header.php and footer.php in the main site folder. If i include the header.php in other directories I am just using:
<?php include('../header.php'); ?>
I know this isn't the way to do it however I don't know how to configure it probably (with a config.php file etc..) but my issue is, once the header's included in files in any directory of course it will look for the css/main.css file in that folder so I've tried doing the following:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="<?php echo $_SERVER['DOCUMENT_ROOT']. '/JAGS/css/main.css' ?>" />
When I use the php line in the body it displays the path
E:/xampp/htdocs/JAGS/css/main.css
but if I use it there in the link tag then doesn't work.
What seems to be my problem other than the fact I'm clueless with PHP. Is there something else I should be using? Is there something I need to do in my xampp config files?
Edit: By "doesn't work" I mean the styles are not being applied.
Edit 2: Inspecting shows the following:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="E:/xamppp/htdocs/JAGS/css/main.css">
I know there's an extra p on the end of xampp, this is actually what I have the folder named. Is it because it's not saying "localhost/JAGS/CSS/main.css"? If so what would be the reason for this?
Edit 3: Console shows error below:
Not allowed to load local resource: file:///E:/xamppp/htdocs/JAGS/css/main.css
Edit 4: Not using Laravel
Thank you
Why do you require the document root, you should just place a dot in front of it and set the base url in a meta tag.
<base href="yourdomain.com">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./JAGS/css/main.css'/>
I will have multiple folders/modules to access common files. But accessing them seems to be big deal for me!
I did gone through this link to understand the relative positioning and managed to solve some . But not all. Reference: Relative URL's/paths in php
My folder structure is as below:
Website runs on root folder:
/(index|ajax).php
and then the subfolders:
/css/style.css
/img/*.(jpg|png|gif)
/inc/(header|footer).php
/js/*.js
/registration/(ajax|getsubjects|response|success).php
Now, this is how I included files in the index.php page(this displays correctly, meaning, style,css,js,config all accessible)
<?php
include('inc/header.php');
?>
content here
<?php
include('inc/footer.php');
?>
This index page will have to fetch getsubjects.php, response.php and then finally land in success.php.
The success.php need some styling whereas the previous two were only for processing.
So now in the success.php I access header and footer as below:
include('../inc/header.php');
include('../inc/footer.php');
But this doesn't apply any styling!
inside header.php and footer I include files like this:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./css/style.css">
<script src="./js/script.js"></script>
How should I include the files here please?
./css/style.css means from current directory and would achieve the same result as css/style.css. The easiest answer is to determine what the base path of your application is and use that. For instance, if your application is running as http://myapp.com, then you could set all your front-end paths to /css/style.css. If your app runs in a subdirectory, such as http://example.com/myapp, then your paths would be /myapp/css/style.css.
This does not apply the same on the PHP side. For them, you should really use document-relative paths. Having a PHP file that you include in multiple places in your app, the contents of which having something like include('../myDoc.php');, can lead to complications as the path isn't based on the included document's path, but rather the including. So using document-relative paths, you get around this include(__DIR__ . '/../myDoc.php');. Just something to consider if your app grows.
Your PHP-includes seem to be correct. But in your HTML you need to change the linking to the CSS and JS Files (maybe even to your images).
You could use absolute paths:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css">
<script src="/js/script.js"></script>
the leading dot makes your paths relative to the HTML-Document, so if they are linked from a document in a subfolder, they point to a wrong location.
Including files with
<?php
include("page1.php")
?>
put the code (or content) from page1 into the caller page.
So you may have to detect from where your pages are called, or try absolute links (beginning by /)
I hope I answer you question correctly.
I am working on a webapplication that's running on a subdomain. In the code I used relative URL's all over the place. Nothing special, just the normal way to go.
I have just uploaded the site, but I can't find any file that I want to include. This, for example, is working now:
Site URL: sub.domain.com
CSS files are in: sub.domain.com/css/
Adding the following to the index.php **is working:**
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/styleSomething.css">
But including PHP files it the thing that is not working
Site URL: sub.domain.com
PHP Include files are in: sub.domain.com/inc/
Adding the following to the index.php is **not** working:
require_one(/inc/config.php)
If I change the URL's to start with a ./ or with no slash at all it will find the files for the homepage. But that's not going to work when the visitor navigets to a different page.
Am I missing some here of is this a problem with the hosting?
You can use the <base> tag to set the root URL for your site: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/base
The following should work for your example:
<base href="http://www.blah.com/yadda1/yadda2">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/styleSomething.css">
This will reference the stylesheet at http://www.blah.com/yadda1/yadda2/css/styleSomething.css.
If you are using PHP and using several URLs, place your base URL in a variable:
<base href="<?php echo $base_url; ?>">
If I understand correctly, you have the pages under /rel1 under the root of the server.
If so, try using /rel1/css/style.css.
I'm trying to make user friendly URL using mode rewrite.
My problem is, that after giving category like 'name' to my URL, when I call the page using new URL, it can't load the CSS file or images.
I have a link like:
localhost/mywebsite/project?id=22
New link is something like
localhost/mywebsite/project/22/myproject.project
htaccess code:
RewriteRule ^project/([0-9]*)/.*\.project$ /project.php?project=$1 [L]
(it might not be 100% right but I don't have access to my code right now so I just wrote this and it works fine on the original source)
My root directory is localhost/mywebsite/
and my CSS file is in css/style.css
localhost/mywebsite/css/style.css
my htaccess
localhost/mywebsite/.htaccess
and my project.php file is in
localhost/mywebsite/project.php
So in the project page I have access to CSS file by using relative path,
<link href="css/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />
but when I use rewritten URL page can't find the CSS file.
I can't use absolute path with domain name because I don't have domain yet! and it can be anything.
one way is to use relative path to domain as suggested on the similar questions
localhost/mywebsite/project.php
and when i run my script localy my root directory is
localhost
so css link should look like
href="mywebsite/css/style.css"
but when i go live i should change all links to probably something like
href="/css/style.css"
this seems like lots of work
For your local version add
<base href="//localhost/mywebsite" />
to the head section
and for your live versions change it to
<base href="//your.domain.here" />
reference at http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/struct/links.html#h-12.4
you have to define the base path or the server view path in the connection.php and whenever u want that path, make that global. then that variable will b called and the css or images will take the whole path.
for example
$SVP="http://www.example.com/"
global $SVP;
echo $SVP;
so
Insert an image into the same file with the same relative path as the css href link, load the page in a browser, right-click the image in internet explorer, click properties and you should see where the relative path actually points to.
I'm developing a PHP website that uses url routing. I'd like the site to be directory independent, so that it could be moved from http://site.example.com/ to http://example.com/site/ without having to change every path in the HTML. The problem comes up when I'm linking to files which are not subject to routing, like css files, images and so on.
For example, let's assume that the view for the action index of the controller welcome contains the image img/banner.jpg. If the page is requested with the url http://site.example.com/welcome, the browser will request the image as http://site.example.com/img/banner.jpg, which is perfectly fine. But if the page is requested with the url http://site.example.com/welcome/index, the browser will think that welcome is a directory and will try to fetch the image as http://site.example.com/welcome/img/banner.jpg, which is obviously wrong.
I've already considered some options, but they all seem imperfect to me:
Use url rewriting to redirect requests from (*.css|*.js|...) or (css/*|js/*|...) to the right path.
Problems: Every extension would have to be named in the rewrite rules. If someone would add a new filetype (e.g. an mp3 file), it wouldn't be rewritten.
Prepend the base path to each relative path with a php function. For example:
<img src="<?php echo url::base(); ?>img/banner.jpg" />
Problems: Looks messy; css- and js-files containing paths would have to be processed by PHP.
So, how do you keep a website directory independent? Is there a better/cleaner way than the ones I came up with?
You could put in the head
<base href="<?php echo url::base(); ?>" />
This will mean the browser will request any non-absolute URLs relative to that path. However I am not sure how this would affect URLs embedded in CSS files etc. This does not affect paths defined in CSS files. (thanks mooware)
The <base> thing will work but you need to remember it's going to affect your <a> tags too. Consider this example.:
<!-- this page is http://oursite.com/index.html -->
<html>
<head>
<base href="http://static.oursite.com/" />
</head>
<body>
<img src="logo.gif" alt="this is http://static.oursite.com/logo.gif" />
this links to http://static.oursite.com/login which is not what we wanted. we wanted http://oursite.com/login
</body>
</html>
If you use a PHP function call for creating your links, that won't be a problem as you can just make sure it spits out absolute URL. But if you (or your designers) hand-code the <a> tags then you're stuck with the same problem again, just now with <a> instead of <img>.
EDIT: I should add the above paragraph is assuming you serve images from a different host name like we do. If you don't then obviously that won't be a problem.
tomhaigh has a good point, and would be worthwhile to investigate it further.
According to MSDN, the base tag works for all external sources, including style sheets, images, etc.
Perhaps I'm missing something, but can't you just do what I (and I thought everybody else) do/es? Namely put all your images, css, javascripts, etc in a common directory i.e.:
/inc/images/
/inc/css/
/inc/javascript/
etc
And then reference them with base-relative URLs, i.e.:
<img src="/inc/images/foo.jpg" />
etc
?