I’ve been spending a while looking for where the main content goes like images, stylesheets, etc. I can’t find where it would go. I tried putting it in the root directory and was unsuccessful. Any help would be appreciated thanks!

Your static content can go anywhere on your server.  Most people create an asset folder in their ci-root.  Remember that your paths will be relative to index.php.

Also, if you’re using .htaccess make sure to exclude the asset folder.

Well that’s what i’ve been trying so lets say i’m going to use images on a page(view) so I would set the paths to images/whatever.jpg. inside the root folder where index.php is I have the images folder and the <whatever.jpg> inside. it’s not working when I tried that.

Hmm, following scenario:

CI-Root:
www.example.com/myci/index.php

Image
www.example.com/myci/images/test.png

CI View
img src=”/myci/images/test.png”
or
img src=”./images/text.png”

I tried both of those but was unsuccessful with both…

Are you using a .htaccess file?  If so, could you post the contents?

No I am not using one, also when I call which directory everything is in it says it’s in the CI folder, which is right where it should be… Also I used an absolute URL and it didn’t display any images, it’s just not displaying images in total.

<deleted>

Alright I checked if I was getting any errors, all the logs say that are important and have anything to do with an error is: ERROR - 2008-05-11 11:39:07—> 404 Page Not Found—>  I don’t know why it’s saying page not found because the page works, I know for a fact the images work as well, it reads the images, I tried using a URL directly to it(www.google.com/whateverhtegoogleimageis.jpg) and that worked perfectly, but using it from the local folder doesn’t work at ALL.

This doesn’t sound like a CodeIgniter issue.  Image requests aren’t routed through CI, they’re just done normally.  Can you access an image if you just place it in your server root?

no I can’t, in fact I can’t access anything through CI using the local routes(/home/username/public_html/whatever.jpg) I know for a fact it finds it because when I checked my error logs and put a image that didn’t exist it gave me an error that it couldn’t find it, however when I used a picture that existed it found it but didn’t load it. I was successful making all my links like this: “<?php echo $baseth;?>images/home.jpg” $baseth is the direct URL to the CI folder.

Okay, after checking some more it looks like the problem is because it reads the links like this CI/index.php/images/whatever.jpg It shouldn’t be index.php :\.

Try using base_url from the url helper.

Before doing that make sure that $config[‘base_url’] in config/config.php is set correctly.