Keep CSS Formatting in folder assets Yii - css

I used yiibooster I have changed many styles under /assets/73dd67/bootstrap/css/bootstrap-min.css
But when I changed my webapp name, the CSS files not found, I mean the folder '73dd67' changed to '253ft6'.
The same case when I moved my webapp to another computer. The '73dd67' folder changed again in another name.
What can I do so I can keep the CSS formatting?
Thanks for your answers

Asset folder have only cached files. You made changes in cached file not actual file.
So find the actual location of bootstrap-min.css and do your changes. After doing changes, just remove all cache folders inside the asset folder. Then you can see the output in next refresh itself.
Hope you are using yIIbooster as extension. So do your changes in extension css/bootstrap-min.css file.

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Copy a project from one directory to another directory - YII2 basic

I have created one project in yii2-basic. In that I had done the some changes in the bootstrap.css in the web/assets/dir/.
Now I need to deploy this into another directory. I copied that project into another directory. Then I run in the browser. The changes I had done in the files are not affecting to the site. Then it refers to the another file for css.
I can't find the correct way to do this. Can anyone show me the correct way to do this?
for changing the css you should change the original in the
.\basic\vendor\bower\bootstrap\dist\css
then minimize it
and then in the dir web\asset you must delete the dir where is place the bootstrap (bootstrap-min.css i guess) files
There isn't a fixed name for this asset dir, you must find yourself the correspondent dir containing all the bootstrap part (css, js , fonts). and then remove (cancel) this dir.
Removing this dir when you accessing to the app the dir is newly recreate (normally with another asset id name).
If you don't do this when you copy a project in a new dir, at the first access the asset directory are newly create and the code you have change is not reached by application.

Trouble initializing less stylesheets on my meteor app

My less style sheets are located in my /public folder for now. I'm trying implement them on my meteor app but to no avail.
This is the error I get:
The stylesheets are located in the /less folder, which is inside the public folder, so the URL should be correct. By the way, all those files that are in the screenshot above are files that import dozens of other variables located deeper in the folder.
I also checked and I have the latest version of less installed. Any help would be appreciated.
The public folder isn't the right place to store the files. Files stored in a “public” folder are served to visitors. These are files like images, favicons, and the “robots.txt” file. So they get served 'as-is', not processed by LESS and served as CSS.
More about Meteor folder conventions.
After discussion in the comments, it seems something is not working right in your less compiler, the less file should not be in the public folder, as already mentioned, and you should not need to include it with a script tag. You can follow these steps to create a new app and test less and see if you can find a difference between this and your current app.
Create a new meteor project
meteor create test
Add less
cd test
meteor add less
Start your server
meteor
add a file sytles.less to the top level folder with this...
.fun {
color: red;
}
Update the test.html file to add the fun class to the text output...
<div class="fun"><p>You've pressed the button {{counter}} times.</p></div>
Load the page, the text should pick up the class and become red. No link to the styles.less file needed. You can try moving it around to different folders, it worked fine from client for me as well. Look around and see what else might be different.
If you still have issues, try providing more information on how the project is set up.

Issues with files naming when useing filerev & usemin

Lets assume I have 2 static assets (html files) in my project, files a.html and b.html.
File a.html has a link to file b.html inside of it.
Now I run a build and the 2 files got their name changed and everything is working fine (by the filerev module).
Now I need to make a small change only in file b.html -> filerev will give a new name to file b.html in the next build. Because file a was not changed it will have the same name as the prev build.
Now, in the next build usemin will go to file a and will fix the link to the new file b name and everything looks fine. But not, because file a still has the same name as prev build, users will get a broken link when trying to access file b from a.
I guess a workaround is to instead of having hashes of the file names, generate random file names each time.
That way you are generating all files so it is not optimized, but you prevent the caching problems between versions, while still allow caching of the browser for the same version.
Using the grunt-angular-template task can solve this issue as it is adding all the templates to the $templateCache of angular, so the no real requests will be made to the server when a template is requested and the recent template is loaded from the cache. Of course it is not ideal as in big applications you will not want this as this may increase your js file size

external CSS sheet not loading to hosting

I'm having trouble making my CSS external stylesheet work in my actual hosting. It all works fine when I open the files from my Finder (I'm using a mac), but the stylesheet does not seem to load to my server properly. All other html files load fine and are visible when you visit my website in any browser,this is my website and the File Manager on my cPanel indicates that the CSS folder and external stylesheet file have been successfully uploaded for enough time that the style features should display. I tried clearing my browsing history and reopening my browser.
My link tag is and I have tried it using aswell as with just "css/socialpolarities.css". I've checked to make sure the spelling is right on the path and corresponds to the actual file.
Is the answer to just put all the style files in the public_html folder and then just change the path on all my html files? Or am I missing something?
I'm also using LiquidWeb if that means anything
The file css/socialpolarities.css seems to exist, but is void of content.
try looking at your local file to make sure it is indeed the one with the css code, then upload it to the same folder and override the original one.
You may have had an upload error.
I got it! The problem was actually that I needed to put the css file in the home directory, for some strange reason. My path from my html files definitely specified that the css files were in a css directory so I'm not sure if it's something I did wrong or whether the cPanel just sucks. Regardless, it works so I won't mess with it. Now time to copy all of my webfont files into my home directory...this is going to be messy lol.
Check your permission. They should be 755. You can search about permissions on internet. I changed the permissions and it worked fine.

How might i setup my ASP.NET project to find my files?

edit I do not want to redirect pages, specific files etc. I would like to change the path where images, videos and other media are stored from the root source directory to the directory of my choosing. In this case c:/dev/prjfiles/prjname/public (c:/dev/prjfiles/prjname/ is my working directory) and i except when my html does img src="/pic.png" it will find the image in c:/dev/prjfiles/prjname/publi/pic.png. I need a working solution, i tried looking at how to set virtual directories and etc. I cant figure it out. Thus the bounty. I am generating the html, i am not writing asp:image runat="server" etc i am pulling data from a DB and outputing the html. The part that is still a WIP is the code that handles POST request. The html already exist but i cant have hundreds of files in site.com/here pollution my source directory (c:/dev/trunk/thisprj/thisprj/where my .aspx files are and i do not wish 500 .png/gif/jpg here)
I dont know how asp.net environments are usually set up. I am assuming i have a root path that is not available from the web, a bin/ where i may put my asp.net dll and a public where i stick in any files i want.
I would like to have my project files seperated from everything else. My JS, css and image files are in prjfiles/prjname/public with my sqlite db in prjfiles/prjname/ and extra binaries in prjfiles/prjname/bin.
The problem comes when i run my app and try to load an image. Such as /cssimg/error.png. My project does not find resource in my /public folder and i have no idea how to make it find them. How can i set my project up so it does?
NOTE: I set the working directory path so its at prjfiles/prjname/. In code i write ./bin/extrabin.exe and db.sqlite3 which access the files properly.
You might want to watch the getting started videos for ASP.NET
http://www.asp.net/get-started/
EDIT: More info added
As #Murph suggests, your assumptions are incorrect.
IIS takes care of blocking HTTP access to any important files and folders like your *.aspx.cs, and *.cs in the App_Code, any DLLs, anything under the App_Data directory and the web.config.
Content files, such as *.html, *.css, *.js, .gif, .jpg, .png are all served in the normal manner.
In this way, there is no need for a "public" folder.
I dont know how asp.net environments are usually set up. I am assuming i have a root path that is not available from the web, a bin/ where i may put my asp.net dll and a public where i stick in any files i want.
This is wrong assumption!
You have a root folder, which IS available in public. You set IIS or ASP.NEt Development Server to this folder.
(optional, but always needed) You have a web.config file in this root folder for configuration
You have a bin folder for your assemblies (each page or user control "include" compiles to a class)
(optional) You have App_Data as default folder for file-based DBs and/or other data files (say XML storage, ..)
(optional) You have an App_theme folder for styling and images. Read about ASP.NET themes.
(optional) You can add App_Code folder if you want to add classes to be compiled by the server.
You can create folders for scripts, etc...
Normally for complex logic, etc.. you create in a separate project outside the root and reference the result assembly in the bin folder.
Seriously, you cannot do ASP.NET work without an IDE or a manual. Visual Web Developer 2008 Express IDE is free and http://asp.net has tons of resources for getting started.
I don't know if I got the question right, but maybe you could try the <BASE> HTML tag.
HTML <base> Tag
"Specify a default URL and a default target for all links on a page"
There's a nice and simple example at W3Schools, check it out.
The negative side is that you need to put a <BASE> tag in each page you want.
It sounds like you should be able to create a virtual directory to do what you're asking -- but it's a very non-standard setup.
Keep in mind that IIS will prevent users from downloading DLLs and other project-level files, so you usually don't need to partition them off in a separate layer.
For example, just have a cssimg folder at the top level of your project, and skip the whole public folder thing.
I see where you're coming from. ASP.NET projects are set up a little differently from how you're treating them, but you can make them work like you want.
The root of an ASP.NET project IS publicly accessible. When you created your WebSite within Visual Studio, it created a default.aspx page right on the root. Are you hosting in IIS? If so, it's set up to serve up default.aspx by default. But I digress.
Here's how to make it work like you want (mostly):
Create a WebSite, then right-click the site and add a folder named "prjfiles". Right-click that folder and make another named "public". Create another subfolder of that one called "cssimg".
Now, if you want to use the image you mentioned, you'd reference it like this: "~/prjfiles/public/cssimg/error.png" (pathing starting with the root) or "./cssimg/error.png" if you're coming from a page in the public folder (relative pathing).
Really, though, you're doing too much work. Here's how to make it work with less effort:
Create your WebSite, right-click the project and add a folder called "cssimg".
Treat the root as you would the "public" folder- put your pages right there on the root or in subfolders, as needed. You can reference that same image file like this now: "./cssimg/error.png" (relative) or "~/cssimg/error.png" (start from root)
There's also another way to tell the engine where to look for resources, but it's for your css files. Inside the "head" tag, you can add a "style" element (with type="text/css") and inside that you can add something like this: #import '<%= ResolveUrl("~/prjfiles/public/cssimg/styles.css") %>';
Good luck!
If I correctly understood your problem, you're trying to find files which aren't physically stored on a filesystem folder, or stay on a different folder. You can deal with this problems by implementing a UrlRewrite mechanism.
I suggest you to read URL Rewriting in ASP.NET and, after, to take a look into this implementation: A Complete URL Rewriting Solution for ASP.NET 2.0.
If I understand all this correctly (please comment with any correction) right now all your files are together in the root directory and you use <img src="/img.png" /> and it works.
If this is the case, make another directory in the directory the images are in, say call that directory images and put the image files there. now use <img src="/images/img.png" />.
Done.

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