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Dear forum members

I just installed a fresh CMSMS and have a strange problem creating the general template: The images used in stylesheet (mostly div background images) do not work.

I checked the links, for example "images/button.png", they do work when I call them directly as an URL path, or when I put the same CSS directly into the template page (using the {literal} tag). The stylesheets as such do also work (fonts and colors etc. are displayed correctly). Only the images do not appear.

I used the latest stable release, 1.9.4.1 "Faanui"

It seems as if the stylesheet uses an other path to the directory, but I have done several CMSMS sites and never got this problem... I have no clue what else to do, any suggestions?

Thanks,
Thom

By the way, also using the complete url to the image in the stylesheet does work, f.e. http://www.homepage.com/images/button.png, but images/button.png does not.

You kind of already answered yourself

When using 'images/button.png' the server doesn't know to what path that relates. Using a full url, solves it.

Another way, the proper CMSMS way, to solve it:
Use {cms_stylesheet} in your page template & add [[root_url]] before your links in the css files.

Like this:

Thanks for your message, Martijn

I will try your solution.
However, why is this necessary now? I have done so many CMSMS sites before, and it always worked by just placing the usual internal link into the stylesheet. I just checked again and it is true, I used for example

body {
background-color: #252525;
background-image:url(images/background.jpg);

No alteration was necessary in CMS Made Simple 1.6.7 "Teremba Bay".

Thomas

Stylesheets are bein cached in /tmp/cache folder meaning you would need to use ../../images/ or /images in case you don't like full url that is created with [[root_url]].
Before 1.8.xx stylesheets were not cached in a folder meaning path to stylesheet looked like being in root folder where path to images was correct.

Thanks unique3, that explains everything. I suppose this should be mentioned in http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... tylesheets

thomahawk wrote:Thanks unique3, that explains everything. I suppose this should be mentioned in http://wiki.cmsmadesimple.org/index.php ... tylesheets

It is in the help in the backend.. Extensions -> Tags -> cms_stylesheet

Your old install was using {stylesheet}, which is relative to the root directory. The cms_stylesheets are served up from somewhere in /tmp. If you go back to {stylesheet} your old stylesheets will work.

Correct,

there are 2 methods of calling stylesheets {stylesheet} which does all relative by default, or the newer {cms_stylesheet} which works cache-based, and thus needs the full path. As the stylesheet is cached in another folder. To make the full path appear, use the [[root_url]]/ in front of the relative images and they will appear.

Ronny

@thomahawk

I would also suggest you move your them images into a sub-directory in uploads/ I would never put anything in root/images, as it is only supposed to be used for cmsms itself...