CSS/JS not loading - Permissions error?

Question

I seem to have had a permissions error in var and specifically var/cache.

Both were previously set to 755, which has not caused issues before. This morning my CSV files stopped being generated by cron to the var/export_bkp directory, I resolved this by setting permissions to 777.

I'm now having the problem that my site has dropped the stylesheets. I tried changing permissions of media/js & media/css to 777, and I can see it is caching stylesheets in there correctly, however, they are not being displayed on the front end.

I have tried flushing cache via Magento admin but still, have nothing. Any help would be appreciated, Thank you.

• Kumar M: Check ownership for pub/static and media folder
• Nguyễn Hồng Quân: i think you shouldn't change to 777, keep 755 and check ownership for pub/static and check file js, css exist

Answer 1

If you are facing problem of css and js page load design after installation in magento2 please follow the following step-: open the terminal and navigate to magento web root

$ cd /var/www/html/magento2

Step 1.

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

Step 2.

$ php bin/magento indexer:reindex

Step 3.

make sure apache "rewrite_module" is enable and then restart the server

Step 4.

$ chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/magento2 

Step 5.

$ chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/magento2 

Step 6.

delete cache folder under var/cache

The above step working. I hope this will work for you also.

• Jeeva Chezhiyan: check .htaccess file inside the pub folder...
• Chris Anderson: Every time one uses chmod -R 777 kittens die.
• Vivek Kumar: Then magento devs kill more kittens then there are stars in milky way..
• Vivek Kumar: Lol, just saw it, @NACHIMUTHU RAMALINGAM you should not just 'chmod -R 777' the whole magento instance man, only needed folders like pub/static, generated, var etc .