CSS and Images with CodeIgniter

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I know that it's and old question but I'm been facing the same problem in my last project with CI. In my software I was using .htaccess to rewrite index.phph and I added the famous line

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|images|css|scripts|robots\.txt)

In my particular case, the css is stored in folder "assets/gw.css" and all the solutions mentioned above had no any results.

The trick is still in the RewriteCond in .htaccess, but you must add the folder where is located the css that you want to load. For example, in my particular case the next line in htaccess works for me:

RewriteCond $1 !^(index\.php|assets|images|css|scripts|robots\.txt)

Please, note that I've added the assets string in .htaccess wich is the folder where the css is stored.

Then you can use the base_url() helper, or you can use absolute path to load the css in the view.

I hope this help to newbies like me.