I have a static website that is locally stored in the C drive: C:\site
I've now created a new site within IIS and pointed it to that location. When I type 'localhost' in the browser, it pulls up the sites index.html
The issue is I've lost all CSS / JS / etc. and I assume this is because my paths aren't pointing to the right source. I have the same issue for links (hrefs).
Before connecting to IIS, my paths were as follows:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="C:/Site/css/MyFontsWebfontsKit.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="C:/Site/css/bootstrap.min.css" />
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="C:/Site/css/style.css" />
<script type="text/javascript" src="C:/Site/scripts/jquery-1.12.3.min.js" ></script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="C:/Site/scripts/bootstrap.min.js" ></script>
I've tried looking around for answers, as well as trying some things such as:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="localhost/Site/css/style.css" />
OR:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="http://localhost/Site/css/style.css" />
But still no luck in seeing my CSS, JS, etc.
As for the links, they were working before IIS and looked like this:
<a href="/Site/about.html">About Us</a>
I assume once I can achieve the correct paths for my CSS & JS I'll be able to figure out the links. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks!
If your folder structure is this:
css
style.css
index.html
Then the path css/style.css will always work from index.html, regardless of where it's hosted. You're hard-coding root paths in the references, so when the root path changes in any way it's going to break all the references.
Try:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="css/style.css" />
(With the same change applied to other references.)
You can always reference files relative to each other, but referencing them relative to the root requires a consistent root.