No CSS from include.php from level up directory

Question

I've searched around and found people with similar problems, but nothing suggested seems to work for me.

Here's my file structure...

CSS
  > style.css
INCLUDES
  > header.php
  > footer.php
IMGS
index.php
contact.php
about.php
terms.php
MUSEUM-PAGES
  > dummy.php

the header.php which contains the link to css works fine for any html/php page that isn't nested in a sub-directory.

But when I use a sub-directory to better organise the files it falls apart. In this example museum-pages > dummy.php can't bring in the css. The content from the header and footer work fine, just not the CSS files.

I tried replacing the

<link rel="stylesheet" href='css/style.css' type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8"> in the header.php to...

/css/style.css
.
../
../../

but it will drop all non-sub directed references in other pages, such as the homepage. I am baffled. Anyone able to help me please?

Answer 1

This should work fine?

<link rel="stylesheet" href='/css/style.css' type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">

The / is 'root'

EDIT

Since this didnt work, you could try this below, it isnt good practice IMHO however.. it will work.

<?php

// this is your header.php file

$linkToCss = "http://yoursite.com/css/styles.css";

?>

<link rel="stylesheet" href='<?php $linkToCss; ?>' type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">

If that doesn't work there is another issue going on - try it see if it works.

Answer 2

Use an absolute path:

<link rel="stylesheet" href='/css/style.css' type="text/css" media="screen" title="no title" charset="utf-8">