Wrong path for theme assets

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I’m working on a WordPress project, starting from Mark Jaquith’s WordPress-Skeleton repository, using MAMP.

I cloned the repo, updated the WordPress submodule, created a database and updated the local-config.php file.

Everything seems to be fine so far, but when I try to use a different theme (placing it on /content/themes), all the theme’s assets get the wrong path (so the site is rendered with no images, no CSS and no JS). For example:

In the source code, a stylesheet link points to:

http://localhost/content/themes/roots/assets/css/main.min.css

when it should be:

http://localhost/lab/Wordpress-Skeleton/content/themes/roots/assets/css/main.min.css

I’m getting the wrong path for all assets in my themes (any theme I place into /content/themes)

For example, in the source code, a stylesheet link points to:

http://localhost/content/themes/roots/assets/css/main.min.css

when it should be:

http://localhost/lab/Wordpress-Skeleton/content/themes/roots/assets/css/main.min.css

While debugging I found out that the global $wp_theme_directories returns an array with two paths, and both are correct:

.../htdocs/lab/WordPress-Skeleton/wp/wp-content/themes
.../htdocs/lab/WordPress-Skeleton/content/themes

but, the function get_theme_root_uri() when called from the functions.php of a theme located on the second path from the $wp_theme_directories array, returns:

http://localhost/content/themes

The themes from the folder /wp/wp-content/themes (the default ones that came with the WP submodule update) work fine.

1 Answer
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Turns out the problem was with WP_CONTENT_URL, defined inside wp-config.php:

define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/lab/WordPress-Skeleton/content' );

It seems that $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] is returning an incomplete path (only localhost without the folder).

Since I’m using version control and using a local-config.php to define some local dev variables (like database credentials), I also placed this on it:

define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/lab/WordPress-Skeleton/content' );

and on wp-config.php I added this check:

if ( !defined( 'WP_CONTENT_URL' ) )
    define( 'WP_CONTENT_URL', 'http://' . $_SERVER['HTTP_HOST'] . '/content' );

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