Site dependencies and CSS not loading

Question

I am trying to publish my site (it's a modified html template) to my server.

I can't get the site to load the dependencies, it only shows the text.

I tried changing each href to the appropriate file, where the host says it searches for the index.html. I have tried to change all the local file:// hrefs to corresponding root site values, as the source shows. Why isn't this working?

I was surprised that DW6 doesn't just change the coding when putting a managed site. Shouldn't it load the CSS? I do have all the files and folders on the remote site.

for example

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/public_html/css/reset.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

yet it appears as this: www.pearsoncreamery.com

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Sep 27 '13 at 01:51

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Your site is looking for url's like: "http://pearsoncreamery.com/public_html/css/reset.css".

"public html" is the root of your site, so you should omit that after the slash - ie. it should just be:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/reset.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

or if the page making the call is not in the site's root you need the slash:

<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/reset.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

answered Sep 27 '13 at 01:51

EthanML

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You are absolutely right. thanks ethan. Up and running thanks to you! – derums Sep 27 '13 at 03:02
Glad to help. Remember to tick this answer as accepted if you're done :) – EthanML Sep 27 '13 at 07:21

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Sep 27 '13 at 01:48

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Use the path from the web root to the file. Your current code refers to the absolute path in the file system. You probably need

<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/reset.css" type="text/css" media="screen">

answered Sep 27 '13 at 01:48

score 0 · Answer 3 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:07

Understand the difference between absolute and relative paths.
When you include /public_html/ in your <link> and <scripts> elements, you are in fact requestin http://www.pearsoncreamery.com/public_html/... that probably don't even exist; many hosts have public_html as the web root folder.
On your line 200 and 233 you have Templates/public_html/
On your line 235 you have file:///C|/Users/...
Pay attention to your paths, when your HTML file goes to your hosting server all the paths will be based on the server folder structure.

Site dependencies and CSS not loading

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