Images and css files not loading on live server

I am using the latest ci4 and all looks fine on local host but on web server the images are not appearing. 
I have put images into into public/images and css into public/css.
All config files look fine and everything else including database is working.
I used the html helper to construct link and img tags as well as doing it manually for comparison but neither work on the web server however everything is working correctly on the local server?
Any help would be appreciated.