[gregwhitworth]

So I am running into this weird issue that I've never encountered so I don't know how to solve it. On my LINUX production and dev servers I will link to my css like so:

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

Then on my local machine it won't work, and it's because of the initial /, as this does work:

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

Similiarily in my css files I'll have background images like this:

background-image: url(/images/image.jpg);

Which works on the dev and prod servers but not wamp, and reversely this works on the wamp server:

background-image: url(images/image.jpg);

Any thoughts on why this is?

[no2pencil]

What are the permissions on the root folder? What is the owner set to?

I can see Linux not allowing access to relative "/" if the permissions are not 777 (7 being execute), because execute is required for entering a directory. Now if the current location is relative to root, & you provide the start of the path "images", then it's going to look to images for permissions, & not "root" "permissions".

If that makes sense.

or I'm just wrong It's only a hunch.

[gregwhitworth]

LOL. As far as the permissions go I want to leave the linux box as is it they are, for the site root:

drwxr-xr-x

Then wamp looks like this:

Modify, Read & execute, List folder contents, write

Thoughts?

[no2pencil]

All three executes are selected, so I was wrong.

Hrm, what does the apache logs show when you try to use the root folder & it fails?

[gregwhitworth]

[Wed Dec 12 12:55:39 2012] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] File does not exist: C:/wamp/www/images, referer: http://localhost/AQQ001-Website/

I think this is happening because I don't have vhosts setup on wamp, so you can see it's looking in the root of www and not the sub directory of AQQ001-Website.

[gregwhitworth]

Yep that was the issue. So used to only working locally and then moving to a prod box, so I normally don't have the vhosts set in wamp. Thanks for the help!