I have an images unders /assets/media which loads fine in my Vagrant environment when using the url() function. However on the remote server it fails to load due to a permissions error. I tried putting it in just /assets, where the CSS file is (which of course loads) but still no go. Any ideas?
Change the permissions on your remote server to match the ones in your vagrant environment? 
what would that mean? Everything about the .htaccess file is the same.
It’s about the file permissions. Probably the webserver can’t access the files.
OK thanks I think I get it now, I’ll try that today
This worked. The file permissions on the server were different than the local ones. Thanks!