I know so many others have asked the same question but still no reliable ans is available.
Suddenly my site is hitting the wrong path of static content (CSS/JS/IMAGES) because of this my site is not loading.
static path is adding version140*****
Same problem discussed in this question
But still same problem is there for my custom CSS still url is wrong.
pub/static/version1487328792/frontend/Magento/luma/en_US/Codilar_RenderBook/css/style.css.
Version part is getting added automatically.
This is due to Magento "Signing" the files. Essentially it forces Magento to regenerate the public static files on page reload by adding the current timestamp to the files.
This may have changed due to an upgrade of version so check the following configuration is set to no:
Store -> Configuration -> Developer -> Static Files Settings -> Sign Static Files
Be sure to flush the caches after this has been changed
bin/magento config:set dev/static/sign 0 (magento.stackexchange.com/questions/208666/…) but in my case some folders like extjs were still missing so I also used commands php bin/magento setup:static-content:Deploy -f and php bin/magento cache:flush.
I tried EVERYTHING to no avail, so I finally decided to do it the "wrong" way:
<Magento-base-URL>/vendor/magento/module-theme/Model/Url/Signature.php
Commented out line 66
$baseUrl .= $this->renderUrlSignature() . '/';
After that the admin loaded fine and I checked the "signage" setting. It was still set to "YES" although I had set it to "0" in the database - maybe wrong scope or whatever.
Then I uncommented line 66 back in and it still works fine.
4 hours of my life gone, hope this helps somebody else.
The issue lies with the way magento checks if the the theme is allowed. It uses a DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR on windows this is a backslash: \ the array with theme_names in the function isThemeAllowed() is formated with forward slashes. So the checks fails, and return a 404 error. replace the DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR with a forward-slash and your files will load dynamic.
File: magento-root\vendor\magento\framework\App\StaticResource.php
Line: 171
Change
`if (!($this->isThemeAllowed($params['area'] . DIRECTORY_SEPARATOR .` $params['theme'])
To
`if (!($this->isThemeAllowed($params['area'] . "/" . $params['theme'])`
If you keep the pub/static/.htaccess file in developer mode you don't need to run any compilation command: Magento will create symlinks to files as soon as they are requested. That means that changes to static assets will be visible immediately, provided you also have cache disabled.
You can delete the pub/static/frontend or pub/static/adminhtml instead.
In default mode assets are materialized in pub/static subfolder, meaning they are created (copied, not symlinked) at first request. If you modify them you have to flush the cache to have them updated.
In production mode assets are not materialized (causing 404 HTTP error upon request) until you run the php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy command.
pub/static/.htaccess issue remains same (.htaccess is not generating) after I put .htaccess manually all css/js is loading properly except my modules css/js (version14******** getting added in it).
I did update on magento´s database and its works for me.
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = 'http://localhost/magento2' WHERE core_config_data.config_id = 2;
UPDATE core_config_data SET value = 'https://localhost/magento2' WHERE core_config_data.config_id = 3;
