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Asked: 2026-05-26T13:20:44+00:00

The problem is that when I add a trailing slash at the address bar

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The problem is that when I add a trailing slash at the address bar url localhost/register.php/ the CSS dissapears (is not applied anymore). CSS is in a separate file in a separate dir. Here is the structure:

Structure

CSS is invoked in header.html with <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/style.css" type="text/css" media="screen" />
header.html is included in index.php with include 'includes/header.html';

Running apache under Windows 7.

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  1. Editorial Team

    When a trailing slash is added, your browser assumes register.php to be another directory, rather than a file. When relative URLs are specified, the external resource will be sought relative to the subdirectory register.php/ (because of the slash).

    Example:

    • Before adding a slash:
      css/style.css > http://localhost/css/style.css
    • After adding a slash:
      css/style.css > http://localhost/register.php/css/style.css.

    Fixing
    To fix this issue, make use of absolute URLs. Either of the following:

    • <link href="/css/style.css" ... />
    • <link href="http://localhost/css/style.css" ... />
    • <base href="/register.php" /> (this tag has to be specified within the <head>
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