Magento2 - pub static css not found

Question

In developer mode I been getting the error

FileError: '/pub/static/frontend/theme/theme_name/en_GB/css/styles-m.css' wasn't found (404)

I've taken the following steps to try and resolve this:

Used Refresh static content in the cache management

Taken magento2 out of development mode, check if worked then back in development mode

Backup current static folder, removed contents inside and try to refresh.

All of these points still give me the error above

Answer 1

You need to deploy static-content with Magento 2.

At the least, your hosting company should be able to run this command for you.

1. Make sure that you set your Magento application to developer mode.
2. Need SSH credentials & access to your server
3. Login to server using SSH via terminal, putty, etc.
4. Navigate to Magento 2 root install directory using CLI
5. Run this command:

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php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy en_GB

Answer 2

I faced the same problem I had to explicitly add .htaccess file in pub/static then theme worked fine as it was missing.

Answer 3

If using apache, and AllowOverride is not set, you will get static content errors as well. To enable AllowOverride for magento; add the following to your apache sites-enabled file:

<Directory "/path/to/magento/install">
    AllowOverride All
</Directory>

Answer 4

You need to deploy your static content files. this will create copies of your view files and compile the less files to css and move them to your /pub folder which is the only folder accessible via http.

The only way to do this is from the CLI. In SSH go to the bin folder in your document root and run the following command:

./magento setup:static-content:deploy en_EN

if you have different languages installed, add them like this:

./magento setup:static-content:deploy en_EN nl_NL de_DE enz..

After compilation the files should be there and the theme should load correctly.