I can't reproduce this here.
The files are loaded relative to the site root, starting with a slash. So the browser should ignore the path and call the files from the proper place.

Can you be more specific with which enviroment you're testing this?

I suppose you have disabled a "System - SEF" plugin, right?

I have disabled the SEF plugin, yes. I guess that must be a factor as well! Thanks, Fedik.

I need to do that for performance reasons (the SEF plugin is lousy with embeded SVGs). Still, this problem doesn't happen in Beez and Protostar isn't following recommended practice (http://docs.joomla.org/Creating_a_basic_Joomla!_template) so I think it's still a bug.

To reproduce bug:
1. Enable SEF links via the global settings & copy htaccess.txt to .htaccess in web root
2. Create a new article in the admin site (id should be 1)
3. Disable SEF plugin
4. Manually enter the article name via the url siteurl/component/content/article/1

The file is templates/protostar/index.php. The line numbers in question are 41 and 43. The environment is Ubuntu 14.04 with Apache 2.4.7

Can you replace $this->baseurl with JUri::base() and if it works then make a PR?

Hi dgt41. Who would you like to do this?

Either this->baseurl or JUri::base() should work, a the moment neither is in place. Which is preferable?

Can you create a Pull Request then? See http://docs.joomla.org/Using_the_Github_UI_to_Make_Pull_Requests for how to do it.

If you do, you will get proper credits for doing it

Either this->baseurl or JUri::base() should work, a the moment neither is in place. Which is preferable?

In theory, `$this->baseurl should be a bit faster, so I'd use that.

Set to "closed" on behalf of @brianteeman by The JTracker Application at issues.joomla.org/joomla-cms/5081