Stylesheet does not load after using RewriteRule and include

Question

I have a website that has an index.php, a few simple .html pages and one .php page (contact form) as well as a .htaccess file. On my website I have buttons that point to the pages as follows: index.php?p=welcome.php (example). As you can see, the index.php file includes a page, depending on what was passed on by GET .

I've written the .htaccess to show: http://www.site.com/welcome/ instead of http://www.sites.com/index.php?p=welcome . The links and rewrite both work. The only problem I have is when I click one of the buttons to navigate to another page: there is no styling whatsoever.

I've tested to see if the index.php file is including the other pages properly, and it does. It's just the stylesheet that doesn't seem to work. The style.css is included at the top of the index.php file, where it belongs. Here are bits of code I'd like to show you:

Buttons

<table>
    <tr>
        <td><a href="/welcome/"><div>Welcome</div></a></td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><a href="/references/"><div>References</div></td></a>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><a href="/aboutme/"><div>About me</div></td></a>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td><a href="/contact/"><div>Contact</div></td></a>
    </tr>
</table>

.htaccess

RewriteEngine On
RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)/$ index.php?p=$1

To make it clear: the site still functions as it normally does, but it just does not apply any styling from the stylesheet. Any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

If the stylesheet is being included using a relative path, then that would be the problem. Try using: /path/to/style.css rather than relative/path/to/style.css

So if your stylesheet lives in templates/style.css and you reference it as such, when you rewrite the URL http://www.site.com/index.php?page=welcome to http://www.site.com/welcome/ , the stylesheet's path is relative to that:

http://www.site.com/welcome/templates/style.css

Answer 2

You might be including it with a relative path? When your'e using ./ you are trying to include something from the new (non excistent?) /welcome dir.

Try to include your stuff trough the complete path, or use some sort of variable that tells you the real basepath.