I followed the instructions on this page http://codeigniter.com/wiki/Miscellaneous/ and everything works fine for removing index.php from urls.

This has now caused my CSS file to not be found. The file is in a folder structure like this from the root

assets/css/stylesheet.css

I’ve tried the following

http://mysite.com/assets/css/stylesheet.css

/assets/css/stylesheet.css

assets/css/stylesheet.css

But none of those options work.

My web config file looks like this

Can anyone suggest how to fix this? Thanks for any help

Try adding the assets directory to the rule that doesn’t get rewritten:

noctrum - 15 April 2010 06:39 PM

Try adding the assets directory to the rule that doesn’t get rewritten:

<match url="(index.php|robots.txt|images|test.php|assets)" /> 

Thanks for your quick reply. I added assets to the rule but it’s still not working, even though when I test the pattern in IIS it says it is ok.

Any other ideas?

Thanks

When you go to http://mysite.com/assets/css/stylesheet.css in your browser, does it load? Do you get an IIS 404? CI 404?

I get an IIS 404

Interesting… I’m not familiar enough with IIS to be any more help, I don’t think

No problems, thanks for your help so far. When I read your first post I was convinced that would work perfect first time.

Thanks again

Might the problem be that you don’t have an action for the first rule? Something like:

(again, not real familiar with IIS, syntax may be wrong)

Thanks for coming up with another good suggestion, unfortunately that one produces a 500 error.

I created the rules in the IIS GUI so I expect the actual rules to have been written to the config file correctly.

Right, I’ve got it sorted.

The rules were in the correct order I needed to tell it to stop processing rules after it matched the first one. I did this in the IIS GUI, it’s just a checkbox.

And this is the resultant config file

<?xml version=“1.0” encoding=“UTF-8”?>

<configuration>

  <system.webServer>

      <rewrite>

        <rules>

          <clear >

          <rule name=“codeigniterRuleOne” stopProcessing=“true”>

              <match url=“index.php|robots.txt|images|test.php|assets” >

              <conditions logicalGrouping=“MatchAll” >

          </rule>

          <rule name=“codeigniterRuleTwo”>

              <match url=”.*” >

              <conditions logicalGrouping=“MatchAll” >

              <action type=“Rewrite” url=“index.php/{r:0}” appendQueryString=“false” >

          </rule>

        </rules>

      </rewrite>

  </system.webServer>

</configuration>

Thanks to noctrum for his very good suggestions which helped me whittle down the options to find the solution.