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Asked: 2026-06-10T19:47:48+00:00

i have decided to start using SEF urls on a project which is quite

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i have decided to start using SEF urls on a project which is quite large already.

so i’m thinking of converting urls like so.

http://localhost/browse.php?cat=people
into
http://localhost/category/people/

so i added a RewriteRule to htaccess and Voila the url works but all my css, js, images, links are broken because i have used relative paths throughout the site.

ie. assets/css/styleshheet.css rarther than http://localhost/assets/css/styleshheet.css

So my question is do you have to use absolute paths throughout your entire site when using SEF urls or is there a trick?

If not, what’s the coolest way to implement it?

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  1. Editorial Team

    Routing jpg gif png js and css to specific folders through htaccess is a very bad idea. Kills your flexibility and soon you will have thousands of rules defined this way 😀

    You can define base url of the document like this (put in head section)

    <base href="http://www.domain.com/content/themes/theme1/" />

    or better start using absulute paths for everything. (IMG sources Link URLs etc.)

    For instance WordPress uses absolute links which is also called permalinks.

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