Path To Stylesheet

[bjs]

I'm new here and just getting set up. I'm having a problem getting my css stylesheet to show up.

 

My style sheet is located outside of my public html folder like this:

/css/style.css

 

 

The page that isn't showing my stylesheet is here:

/public_html/test.php

 

 

My link to the stylesheet looks like this:

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

 

 

I've tried different paths ( "/css/style.css") and changed the permissions on the /css folder to 777, but it's still not working.

 

Could this have something to do with me not have a real domain name yet? ( I don't want to point my domain to the site until it's ready to go live.) If this is a problem, is there a way to have a fake domain set up until I'm ready to go live?

 

Any help would be much appreciated.

 

Thanks!

[LisaJill]

Your stylesheet needs tio be inside of public_html. You could have it in say, public_html/css/ or something such, but if it's in a directory prior to public_html then it's not web accessible.

 

Hope that helps. =)

[schussat]

Lisa sounds like she's got the fix. To augment it a little bit, if you put your stylesheet in /public_html/css/stylesheet.css, then you call it from your html document as "css/stylesheet.css" (if your document is in /public_html), or as "/css/stylesheet.css", or via any relative path you want (as "../css/stylesheet.css" if the calling document is in a subdirectory of public_html, for instance).

 

In other words, /public_html is the root of all your web documents, so preceding any path with a slash (like "/directory/foobar.html") sends the server looking for a directory relative to that location, rather than your top-level directory. Like Lisa said, anything you want to be seen via the web has to go in public_html or some subdirectory therof.

[bjs]

Thanks so much. I guess I was assuming that the .html page was 'including' the stylesheet, so that it would essentially be rendered in the public_html folder. I see now that I'm only linking to it.

 

Anyway, I get it now. Thanks again.