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Dear All,
I'm a bit new to this so sorry if this is a poor or poorly worded question.
I'm hosting a very basic laravel installation using artisan serve. I've made a few changes including using a separate css file rather than the initial version which has the css on welcome.blade.php.
The css is unable to be shown in the browsers and throws up the following error in chrome - "net::ERR_INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE". Notably it throws up the same error for the favicon which I haven't changed, so perhaps it's a larger issue.
The css file is public/css/style.css and in welcome.blade.php I have linked to it using the following
link href="{{URL::asset('css/style.css')}}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"My PHP/server is stored in a MAMP (not MAMP pro) server. My computer is windows 10.
Thank you for any time and help you can give.
You should not need the port number in a relative link; you should only need to reference the path relative to the root:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css">
If you omit the leading forward slash, it will try to find the asset relative to your current URI
Thanks so much. So it seems I'm not very good at markdown here so it ignored a code block. Originally, I had linked to the css file using this in welcome.blade.php
link href="{{URL::asset('css/style.css')}}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" But now I have changed it to your suggestion. It still doesn't work but now the error says:
the server responded with a status of 404 (Not Found)
Please the entire contents of welcome.blade.php file
<!doctype html>
<html lang="{{ app()->getLocale() }}">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta http-equiv="X-UA-Compatible" content="IE=edge">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1">
<title>Nathan P M Young</title>
<!-- Fonts -->
<link href="https://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Raleway:100,600" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
<!-- <link href="{{URL::asset('css/style.css')}}" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> -->
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css">
</head>
<body>
<div class="flex-center position-ref full-height">
@if (Route::has('login'))
<div class="top-right links">
@auth
<a href="{{ url('/home') }}">Home</a>
@else
<a href="{{ route('login') }}">Login</a>
<a href="{{ route('register') }}">Register</a>
@endauth
</div>
@endif
<div class="content">
<div class="title m-b-md">
Nathan P M Young
</div>
<div>
<a href="https://twitter.com/NathanpmYoung">twitter</i></a>
<a href="/about">Blog</a>
</div>
<div class="links">
<a href="/about">Blog</a>
<a href="https://laracasts.com">Webcomic</a>
<a href="https://laravel-news.com">Videos</a>
</div>
<div>
<ul>
@foreach ($tasks as $task)
<li> {{ $task->body }} </li>
@endforeach
</ul>
</div>
</div>
</div>
</body>
</html>
Hmm... this is weird. Have you confirmed that the file exists in public/css folder and it is indeed style.css and not styles.css
Yeah it's public/css/style.css
Now the error is back to being Failed to load resource: net::ERR_INVALID_HTTP_RESPONSE
(the 404 was because I accidentally deleted the file, but i've restored it now and it still doesn't work.)
And sorry for messing up the best answer thing.
Hmm okay. If I look in my "APP_URL file it says "APP_URL=http://localhost"
In the browser, the place the browser is searching is http://localhost:8000/css/style.css which I think is the right place. It says localhost sent an invalid response.
Sorry that has not changed anything. The error is still the same.
Ok, get rid of the asset helper, and do it old school:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="/css/style.css">
If you changed APP_URL in .env you need to restart your serve or cache the config. It is still weird though and it seems you're doing something wrong, the asset helper should be working fine hmm
I'm doing it like you say tykus and it's still the same.
Stratos, I've tried restarting my serve. Yeah I figure I've messed up somehow but i don't know how.
Thank you all for your time. THis is very kind of you.
This guy seems to have had a similar problem, though his solution was to use an older version of php because what he was working on was incompatible. That doesn't work for me since I'm using vanilla laravel which should work on php 7.1.5
Instead of php artisan serve try using php -S localhost:8000 -t public in your project's home directory. Works like a charm for me!
@MCFreddie777 , What to do for the deployment of the project to a server ?
Thanks ..worked for me
@mcfreddie777 thanks you! that work for laravel 5.3, solve GET http://127.0.0.1:8000/asset/front/img/source.png 404 (Not Found) error_aborted, thanks, just I don t know why no work php artisan serve
I just encountered the same problem. php artisan serve has been working with no issues up till I stopped working yesterday. Today: app.js and app.cs return 404s, even though the files are there.
Solution:
No. That makes no sense to me either!
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