Access to bower_components at top level directory

[amiroo-webdeveloper]

Hi There,
I have problem with accessing bower_components folder from my app folder, as its at upper level of my app folder, this is my structure:

Project
---bower_components
---app
---scr

so my server sets to go to app folder as main directory, so I access my index like:
project/index.html

now as bower_components folder is outside of app folder, I cant access to it and it throws this error:

Not Found: The requested URL /bower_components/bootstrap/dist/css/bootstrap.css was not found on this server.

could you please help me to set settings in wiredep to access that?
thanks so much.

[stephenplusplus]

Sorry this took me so long to reply. Where is your server making bower_components available? You will just have to instruct wiredep where that is by using either ignorePath or a fileType.replace function https://github.com/taptapship/wiredep/#configuration

[Deleted user]

Realize this is not really a grunt-wiredep problem as its only simply in the middle of injecting URL references to your HTML/CSS, it can't go any further. Grunt or the next grunt task (Example: usemin) has to figure out how to determine where the source files really are.

As stephenplusplus mentioned: Include in your 'Gruntfile.js' file to ignore ..\ from the beginning of the html/css files, as for the fileType.replace. that seems just a little more corky and not really a solution but i guess helps in certain situations.

project/Gruntfile.js:

grunt.initConfig({
...
wiredep: {
            app: {
                ignorePath: /^\/|\.\.\//,
                src: ['src/index.html']
            }
        },
...
    });

Another solution may be changing your project/bower_components folder location to project/src/bower_components.

project/.bowerrc :

{
  "directory": "src/bower_components",
  "dependencies": true,
  "devDependencies": true
}

The sooner this is ironed out the better, i wouldn't recommend doing this in the middle of a project as the Gruntfile can grow and scrolling up and down all day to replace source destinations can be a pain in the A**.

-Null

[stephenplusplus]

Feel free to re-open if there's something else we can help with.