I have tried many of the solutions from: Local installation of Magento 2 doest not generate files in the pub/static folder and similar posts:
I am in developer mode (verified in command line, and I can see error messages on the page for php). I am running Nginx with php-fpm from a 16.04 Ubuntu in vmware.
So far I've tried:
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chmod -R 777
on thevar
andpub
folders -
chown -R www-data:www-data
on thevar
andpub
folders, I've also tried them as owned byroot
with777
perms. -
tried the suggestion about changing from Symlink to Copy in
app/etc/di.xml
file -
pub/static.php
andpub/static/.htaccess
I can verify exist and are correct
So I go to the browser (and my browser has cache disabled in network tab) and load a frontend or admin page and none of the pub/static
file stuff is generated, the page loads but with no css, js, etc.
If I delete the pub/static
I can re-generate them with php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
and that works fine, but the issue is that anytime I make a change to a template file or js file, I have to delete pub/static
and run that command which is very slow and not practical for development. So my questions are:
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Any suggestions?
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Could this have to do with how I have the owner and group of the Magento files? I am not sure how that should be. It seems like php-fpm runs as
www-data
but I'm not 100% sure about that, I am not good with linux. -
Could it have to be with the user that I use when running
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy
? Which user should that be in command line? Usually I run it asroot
. But as I mentioned, I've manually changed the pub and var folders and files towww-data
but it doesn't help. -
Or maybe it has to do with how I have the Mage Root set? I'm using the default
nginx.conf
file included, and have mage root set like:set $MAGE_ROOT /var/www/html/magento2;
(my magento 2 files and folders are in that directory)
Best Answer
0) Verify, Are content of js/css files is cached in a browser?
1) Install xdebug and try to debug pub/static.php
2) I am using www-data groups and magento user and 777 for static files.
3) see 2). Do not use
root
to run static files deploy and do not run it in developer mode. Also, you need clean pub/static folder aftersetup:static-content:deploy
running, because its break automatic redeploy.4) It looks right