routing and relative urls, htaccess?

[eluser]Unknown[/eluser]
Hi, I am pretty new to codeigniter and I am setting up a site as follows:

www.domain.com/site (main site and baseurl)
www.domain.com/site/page (about/help/anything etc)

I also want to use the following:
www.domain.com/site/item/$id
where $id is just a unique product code.

So far everything is working well css/javascript/links except on the www.domain.com/site/item/7 (or whatever product id). The css/javascript files are not relative to the domain and therefore not showing. I know I can add <?baseurl?>/css/style.css in the headers etc but I will also need to add that to all my links.
For example in the footer I have a "home" link and now I will need to add <?baseurl?>/home to all my links. This is a tedious process.
Is there a way maybe through htaccess that I can keep all my links and stylesheets and rewrite the urls so I can just use "/css/style.css" or "/about" etc without using the baseurl?
Hopefully that makes sense?
Thanks in advance, Kim.

[eluser]tomcode[/eluser]
Welcome ceezar,

You can set the HTML tag

Code:

<base href="<?php echo base_url(); ?>" />

in the header of Your HTML file to use relative URL's for Your assets.

I always use absolute links for internal links, that way I can develop with index.php (easier) and decide later if I want to remove it.


You can use the divers functions of the HTML helper, see the User Guide,

The Config class, too, has methods to offer.