Question

I’ve crawled forums far and wide for a solution for this, but to no avail.

I’m running an app on a localhost and I want to link to my CSS styles in my html page.

The general consensus is that I should use base_url() . "css/main.css" to create a link.

The PROBLEM lies in the fact that I want other people on my network to be able to use my app. But when they link to my page from their computer, they see

link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost/codeigniter/css/main.css

which of course does not load the CSS to the page, as the css files are on my localhost, not theirs.

Please tell me there’s an elegant solution to this problem. Codeigniter is driving me kind of nuts.

Answer 1

modify the $config[“base_url”] value to the IP address assigned to your computer. Like:

$config["base_url"] = "http://192.168.1.5/codeigniter/";