TLDR; I had my code in a sub directory that was unable to find my stylesheet

Hi Windows Users on Xampp/mampp/lampp in 2019. I have a fix that worked for me that will work for you and it's to do with our environment setup. This was from a Laracasts Tutorial. PHP Practitioner

This was a breaking point for me and i made it over so you can too!

This is regarding both the errors where you copied jeffs code and still get a 404 OR you receive the error "Resource interpreted as Stylesheet but transferred with MIME type text/html".

First off, your .htaccess file should look like this:

RewriteEngine On
AddType text/css .css
AddType text/javascript .js
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} !(\.css|\.js|\.png|\.jpg|\.gif|robots\.txt)$ [NC]
RewriteRule ^.*$ index.php [END]

Secondly all of your project files MUST 1000% go to your htdocs folder located at: C:\xampp\htdocs

Finally, if you are getting any more errors after this please email me at [email protected] and i will personally help you

The mime types are probably wrong.

Check they're serving the content with Content-type: text/javascript or Content-type: text/css. You can check this using the Network tab of Chrome's Inspector or Firebug.

You'll need mod_mime, and ensure you have these lines in your httpd.conf:

AddType text/css .css
AddType text/javascript .js

That should do it.

Enable mod_mime and add the following lines in your httpd.conf (or a .htaccess):

AddType text/css .css
AddType text/javascript .js

you have to place your css folder in the html folder so /var/www/html/css/... you can do this by

sudo mv /var/www/css /var/www/html/css

OR you have to reference href="../css/basic.css"

But usually you should prefer the first way.

Anyway in both cases make sure you have the rights set correctly e.g. by

sudo chown -R <username>:www-data /var/www/html/css

or in the second case

sudo chown -R <username>:www-data /var/www/css

I think I see the problem. Your SetHandler is applying to every possible URL in the virtual host, without regard for whether it is a PHP file or not. Thus everything gets passed to PHP, even if it is a static file. And because PHP's interpreting the static file as PHP, you get the results you got.

You should instead send only requests for PHP files to the handler, by selecting them by filename:

        <FilesMatch \.php$>
            SetHandler "proxy:fcgi://127.0.0.1:9072"
        </FilesMatch>

You can then remove the unnecessary redundant <Files> bits that you had added.