Magento won't create minified JS files

Question

I switched my Site to production mode and enabled JavaScript minification, bundling and concatenating in the backend, expecting Magento to correctly create the .min.js files - It won't, though. First I thought there might be something wrong with the webserver config, but looking at the filesystem, there simply were no minified versions of the scripts.

I did the following (in vain) to resolve:

• Deploy static content again
• Run upgrade and Di:compile commands
• Flush all caches
• Clean the var/cache and pub/static directories
• Cleared the JavaScript/CSS-Cache in admin
• Run bin/magento deploy:mode:set production again

So I switched back to non-minified, non-bundled scripts, resulting in Magento loading an insane amount of individual files, taking ages for it.
How do I get this (absolutely basic) feature to work? *grumble *

I know this gets asked pretty often here, but most of the questions deal with files being written to disk, incorrect permissions or development mode.

Answer 1

Once you switched to production mode, did you happen to run the setup and compile commands?

php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:di:compile
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

This probably could have been posted as a comment on your question, but I don't have that permission yet, sorry.