# Css and other asset resources loading failed **URL:** \ **Category:** Help\ **Created:** [August 20, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-and-other-asset-resources-loading-failed/4878 "2020-08-20T14:23:39Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Harrypotterrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/harrypotterrrr/32/2708_2.png) [@Harrypotterrrr](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/Harrypotterrrr)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 2:23pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-and-other-asset-resources-loading-failed/4878/1 "2020-08-20T14:23:39Z")
## Environment - I use [academicpages](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io) - Ruby gem or remote theme version: ruby 2.5.1p57 (2018-03-29 revision 63029) [x86\_64-linux-gnu] gem 2.7.6 - Jekyll version: 3.8.7 - Git repository URL: [https://github.com/Harrypotterrrr/Homepage](https://github.com/Harrypotterrrr/Homepage) - GitHub Pages hosted (if yes provide URL to site): - Operating system: Linux ubuntu6-1 4.15.0-29-generic [#31](https://github.com/mmistakes/minimal-mistakes/pull/31)-Ubuntu SMP Tue Jul 17 15:39:52 UTC 2018 x86\_64 x86\_64 x86\_64 GNU/Linux ## Expected behavior Hi, I am using [academicpages](https://github.com/academicpages/academicpages.github.io), a repository forked from this minimal-misktake which is very suitable to the academic propose. I am trying to debug and modify my homepage by using `bundle exec jekyll serve --host 0.0.0.0 --port 8445 --incremental` on the remote server. Note that this remote server is the one with inner IP and cannot be accessed from outside, so I use port forward technique to propagate the port to the public server IP by using `ssh -NfR 8445:localhost:8445 root@106.13.xx.xx` . I manage to see all the text of my homepage, while I fail to load any CSS and asset images etc. As the below figure shows: [![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jekyllrb/original/2X/5/5447c9bbb9a651b1cf326f47f98a4661f42b4714.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28552583/88963968-3c538a00-d2db-11ea-9d95-589a148561c9.png) You can see the request is `http://0.0.0.0:8445/assets/css/main.css` . I change `0.0.0.0` to my public server IP `106.13.xx.xx` , that is `http://106.13.xx.xx:8445/assets/css/main.css` , I successfully get the `main.css` file as the following image shows, which means port forward success. [![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jekyllrb/original/2X/c/cc12b1cb07411530f439158573cd7abd3d23293a.png)](https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/28552583/88964189-95bbb900-d2db-11ea-9f79-b84318bebbfc.png) So I turn to the `_config.yml` to see if I could modify `host` or something else to direct assets request to `106.13.xx.xx` instead of `0.0.0.0` but finally I failed. Struggling for hours, I have to ask you for help for I am a newbie in front-end tech. Hope I make my problem clear and easy to understand. I just wanna test my modification and debug on that remote server, which has an inner IP address and can not be accessed outside. I have no problem with deploying it to Github. Thanks for your help in advance! ---
**Author:** ![rdyar](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/rdyar/32/710_2.png) [@rdyar](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/rdyar)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2020, 3:09pm UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-and-other-asset-resources-loading-failed/4878/2 "2020-08-20T15:09:25Z")
how are you trying to link to the css? as long as you do a relative url I would think it would work. What do you have in the config file for url and baseurl? baseurl should probably not be set. A lot of themes probably use the url and baseurl as a prefix to the css, that is probably not going to work for your setup or at least may cause trouble. ---
**Author:** ![Harrypotterrrr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/talk.jekyllrb.com/harrypotterrrr/32/2708_2.png) [@Harrypotterrrr](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/u/Harrypotterrrr)\ **Post date:** [August 21, 2020, 9:49am UTC](https://talk.jekyllrb.com/t/css-and-other-asset-resources-loading-failed/4878/3 "2020-08-21T09:49:16Z")
Hi, thanks for your reply. I have solved this problem by using local port forwarding together with remote port forwarding tech. It is my fault to meet this kind of problem.