Magento 2.1.9 static files not generating on production - leaves admin blank (no styles, no scripts loading)

Question

Upgraded to Magento 2.1.9 from 2.1.8.

Steps to replicate:

Deploy in production mode

deploy:mode:set production

Set the following paths to 0 within db:

dev/template/allow_symlink
dev/js/merge_files
dev/js/enable_js_bundling
dev/js/minify_files
dev/css/merge_css_files
dev/css/minify_files

Set the following paths value to 1:

dev/static/sign

Deploy static assets:

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy en_AU en_US && php bin/magento c:f

Results Go to mydomain.com/admin and see:

Inspect this, what do we find: A bunch of 404s to static minified files, visiting these files in from CLI also confirms they actually don't exist.

I thought that it might be a locale issue, saw this article but this didn't work for me.

I have minification turned off in my settings, all caches cleared (including Varnish). Yet this issue still persists. Front-end appears fine on the other hand.

Any help would be much appreciated, otherwise I suppose I could train the client to edit the db directly!

Answer 1

If you have install magento2.x in your local PC then if you can try to change line #607.

Magento\Framework\App\View\Asset\MaterializationStrategy\Symlink

to

Magento\Framework\App\View\Asset\MaterializationStrategy\Copy

Open your console/terminal, and type these commands

php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
php bin/magento indexer:reindex
php bin/magento cache:flush

It's working fine.

if you can try it....

Answer 2

I have a dirty fix whilst I continue to look at a more permanent solution. Create a permanent redirect pointing from my custom adminhtml theme - the one that doesn't get deployed to the "Magento" theme which does exist:

rewrite ^/adminhtml/<CUSTOM_THEME>/backend/(.*)$ /adminhtml/Magento/backend/$1 permanent;

In my case I am using nginx. If anyone else is experiencing this issue I hope this will provide a temporary solution for the time being.