If you do this and then access your website through umbraco.local, the path to the images will work for that url, but not for others. So you have to repeat this process once you change the URL to the production one. it's not possible to have a visually complete backend from multiple url's.
Installing Umbraco 4.5.1 Images are Missing (Incorrect CSS Path Mappings)
My login looks like this
did you access the web site with the localhost url for the first time?
I think it's because the client dependency caching.
delete all cached files under \App_Data\ClientDependency
and do a IIS reset.
not sure if this is the right way to do it. but it solved my problem.
yup that fixes it, for one URL.
If you do this and then access your website through umbraco.local, the path to the images will work for that url, but not for others. So you have to repeat this process once you change the URL to the production one. it's not possible to have a visually complete backend from multiple url's.
This worked for me too
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