Where is it acceptable to put css folders and image file folders? I was thinking inside the view folder? However the controller always reroutes the path to the base url so I
I just wanted to add that the problem may be even simpler -
I've been scratching my head for hours with this problem - I have read all the solutions, nothing worked. Then I managed to check the actual file name.
I had "image.jpg.jpg" rather than "image.jpg".
If you use $ ls public/..path to image assets../ you can quickly check the file names.
Sounds stupid but I never thought to look at something so simple as file name given the all the technical advice here.