it case it helps, here is the apache config file.  thanks for the help.
# Apache Default server configuration
 # General setup directives
 Listen 192.168.70.7:80
 Listen 192.168.70.185:80
 HotBackup Off
 CgiConvMode %%EBCDIC/MIXED%%
 TimeOut 30000
 KeepAlive Off
 # DocumentRoot /www/apachedft/htdocs
 DocumentRoot /www/CompanyName/htdocs
 # DocumentRoot /www/intranet/htdocs
 Options -Includes -IncludesNoExec -Indexes
 AccessFileName .htaccess
AccessFileName .htaccess
AddLanguage en .en
# Deny most requests for any file
DirectoryIndex index.html
<Directory />
  order allow,deny
  deny from all
  Options -Indexes -ExecCGI -includes
  AllowOverride Limit Options
</Directory>
<Directory /qsys.lib/cgiwlk.lib>
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow From all
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib>
  allow from all
  order allow,deny
  Options +ExecCGI +Includes
  SetOutputFilter Includes
</Directory>
<Directory /www/CompanyName>
   order allow,deny
   allow From all
</Directory>
<Directory /www/intranet>
   order allow,deny
   allow from all
</Directory>
</Directory>
<Directory /as400img>
   order allow,deny
   allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /www/CompanyName/images>
   order allow,deny
   allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /www/CompanyName/css>
   order allow,deny
   allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /www/CompanyName/as400img>
   order allow,deny
    order allow,deny
    allow from all
 </Directory>
 <Directory /www/CompanyName/download>
    order allow,deny
    allow from all
 </Directory>
 <Directory /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib>
    Options None
    Order Allow,Deny
    Deny from all
 </Directory>
 <Directory /qsys.lib/dtalib.lib>
    Options None
    Order Allow,Deny
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /qsys.lib/dtalibt.lib>
   Options None
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib>
   Options None
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /qsys.lib/cgi-bin.lib>
   Options None
   Options None
   Order Allow,Deny
   Allow from all
</Directory>
# Allow requests for files in document root
<Directory /www/apachedft/htdocs>
  order allow,deny
  allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /www/intranet/htdocs>
  order allow,deny
  allow from all
</Directory>
<Directory /www/CompanyName/htdocs>
  order allow,deny
  order allow,deny
  allow from all
</Directory>
Alias /images/ /www/CompanyName/images/
Alias /dtalib/ /qsys.lib/dtalib.lib/
Alias /dtalib /qsys.lib/dtalib.lib/
Alias dtalib /qsys.lib/dtalib.lib/
Alias /css/ /www/CompanyName/css/
# Alias /as400img/ /www/intranet/as400img/
# Alias /images/ /www/intranet/images/
# Alias /css/ /www/intranet/css/
Alias /dtalib/ /qsys.lib/dtalib.lib/
Alias /dtalib /qsys.lib/dtalib.lib/
Alias dtalib /qsys.lib/dtalib.lib/
Alias /css/ /www/CompanyName/css/
Alias /css/ /www/CompanyName/css/
Alias /as400img/ /www/CompanyName/as400img/
ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/login(.*) /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib/login.pgm$1
ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/(.*) /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib/$1.pgm
ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/(.*) /qsys.lib/cgiwlk.lib/$1.pgm
ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/(.*) /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib/$1.pgm
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib/
ScriptAlias /cgi-bin/ /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib/$1
ScriptAlias /dtalib/ /qsys.lib/dtalib.lib/
ScriptAliasMatch ^/cgi-bin/wlkmnu(.*) /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib/wlkmnu.pgm
ScriptAliasMatch /cgi-bin/(.*).pgm /qsys.lib/cgi400.lib/$1.pgm
On Thu, Jan 17, 2013 at 5:32 PM, Kevin Turner
<kevin.turner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
It looks like the aliasing is forcing everything to "seem" like it is in CGI-BIN, which prevents the use of relative paths (i.e. without the '/').  Normally you would not do that with a CGI app.  Your aliasing would force calls to CGI programs to be in a specific library, but allow other resources (static html, css, js etc) to be referenced relative to the current directory - without a preceding '/'.
It does seem like the file was in the wrong place also. I couldn't really work out from the information provided where it was, so assumed it was correctly located, but was being scuppered by the aliasing.
-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Dean, Robert
Sent: 17 January 2013 22:17
To: Web Enabling the IBM i (AS/400 and iSeries)
Subject: Re: [WEB400] CSS file not being found
I'm confused by this reply, because the directory-relative link was clearly one of the two problems (the storage location of the CSS file being the other).
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