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Asked: 2026-05-23T17:22:48+00:00

I serve content from a subdirectory on my web server, for example: http://www.myserver.com/subtree I

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I serve content from a subdirectory on my web server, for example:

http://www.myserver.com/subtree

I notice that the CSS is not rendering correctly, so I look at the source of the HTML file:

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

One would expect that browsers such as Chrome or Firefox attempt to find this css at

http://www.myserver.com/subtree/static/stylesheets/style.css

When hovering over the link, I can see that it links me to

http://www.myserver.com/static/stylesheets/style.css

It may be useful to note that I’m using apache’s mod_proxy to serve the content from /subtree from another server running on the local machine. However, my reasoning is that the browser doesn’t know about this and it looks like the content is coming from myserver.com/subtree so therefore it should look for the resources using the relative path.

What am I missing?

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  1. Editorial Team

    That’s to be expected. The browser cannot know that /subtree is a folder (instead, it could also be just a file served as text/html). If you want the browser to include this path fragment in relative path lookups, make sure that it ends with as slash, as in:

    http://www.myserver.com/subtree/

    If you are using Apache, you can use mod_dir’s DirectorySlash directive to automatically fix this for you: mod_dir documentation

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