Im learning Symfony and trying to set up a boilerplate app in Symfony 4
This Symfony document describes how to include assets in your page, namely using the asset
package like so..
<img src="{{ asset('images/logo.png') }}" alt="Symfony!" />
<link href="{{ asset('css/blog.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" />
I have installed this package and trying to link to a css file in my /public
directory.
I know Symfony recommends placing assets in an /assets
folder at the root, but I would like to avoid this if possible. It makes more sense to me to place assets in the public directory.
My Twig base template is as follows:
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>{% block title %}Welcome!{% endblock %}</title>
{% block stylesheets %}
<link href="{{ asset('public/css/main.css') }}" rel="stylesheet" />
{% endblock %}
</head>
<body>
{% block body %}{% endblock %}
{% block javascripts %}{% endblock %}
</body>
<footer>footer</footer>
</html>
Problem
When I load the route/page/template, the linked css is rendered as a simple link from the root (as if Im linking it as <link href="public/css/main.css" rel="stylesheet" />
- there is of course no route set for public/*
and this returns 404/Not Found
.
Its as if the asset()
function is not even used.
Ive tried
- Restarting my local Symfony server
- moving the asset to an
assets
folder at the root at adjusting the link accordingly - verifying that the
asset
package was installed (it is) - googling this issue (nothing for Symfony 4)
Questions
- How can I let Symfony know that the
public/*
path is a filesystem path to assets, NOT a URL route, and include my assets successfully? - Is there such a feature to set a default location for assets other than the recommended
/assets
folder at the root?