Magento 2 - no css after pub folder has been deleted

Question

I deleted the pub folder of my magento installation. Then I used

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

and now the site has no CSS at all. How can I fix that?

Thanks!

• Purushotam Sharma: Please upload pub folder files from fresh setup and run above command

Answer 1

Don't delete the entire pub folder. Delete pub/static/* if/when needed.

You are most likely missing three critical files that will not be automatically regenerated:

pub/.htaccess 
pub/media/.htaccess 
pub/static/.htaccess

If you have a backup or a local dev site, I suggest finding and restoring them from there. Otherwise, you can find them in the appropriate branch of the Magento github repository (depending on what version you are running): https://github.com/magento/magento2

Answer 2

Well if you have deleted pub folder then even though you run

php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

It will still not generate, because if its pub/static then it will generate automatically.

So better to create pub directory manually again

Then upload media folder in it from your backend.

Then run php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f

It will generate static folder again and css is also load back again !!