Routing and relative paths

Question

CodeIgniter and many other PHP frameworks rout URLs, e.g. if default controller is root.php then both URLs will work

website.com/
website.com/root

if controller has a function 'login' then this URL is valid

website.com/root/login

This is very handy, but the HTML template that used to work in first example, doesn't work in the second, e.g. this relative path is no longer valid

<link rel='stylesheet' href='stylesheets/style.css'/>

and instead I have to use

<link rel='stylesheet' href='../stylesheets/style.css'/>

Is there a way around it?

Answer 1

If you make the styleshhet path relative to the rooot directory of the site I would think it would work in both cases, i.e.

<link rel='stylesheet' href='/stylesheets/style.css'/>