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Gyan's avatar
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This page failed to load a stylesheet from a URL.

Hello, I have a project in which developer uses {{ url('') }} to link CSS. It work on hosted server but when I copied the project to local It not loading CSS files and also some images.

<link href="{{ url('public/new/new_design/plugins/aos/aos.min.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="{{ url('public/new/new_design/plugins/bootstrap/css/bootstrap.min.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="{{ url('public/new/new_design/plugins/smartmenus/jquery.smartmenus.bootstrap-4.css') }}"
        rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="{{ url('public/new/new_design/plugins/fontawesome/css/all.min.css') }}" rel="stylesheet">
    <link href="{{ url('public/new/new_design/plugins/bootstrap-datepicker/bootstrap-datepicker.min.css') }}"
        rel="stylesheet">

Please guide me.

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martinbean's avatar

@gyan URLs should not have “public” in them. This suggests the app is hosted insecurely with the root directory (including sensitive files like your .env file exposed).

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