CSS/JQuery won't show up after clean installation of Magento 2.3

[moshe_biton]

 Hi everyone,

I am working for two days on this and couldn't make everything work... before you read it, note that I've tried every solution I could find on stackoverflow, quara and more.

So:

These are the steps I took:

1. Opened a new instance of EC2
2. Edited php.ini file (version 7.1) as follows:
   1. memory_limit = 256M
   2. cgi.fix_pathinfo = 0
   3. max_execution_time = 1800
   4. max_input_time = 1800
   5. upload_max_filesize = 100M
3. Installed Magento 2.3
4. Ran the following commands for premissions (I know it's not ideal, the purpose is testing whether it's working or not):
   1. sudo chown -R www-data:www-data /var/www/html/magento/
   2. sudo chmod -R 777 /var/www/html/magento/
5. created a magento.confg in sites-available (apache2):
   1. everything is standard besides the serverName and Server alias which is my <domain name>/magento (magento folder inside the www/html folder). Before you say anything - that's the only way I managed to make it work.
6. enabled rewrite (sudo a2enmod rewrite)

Current situation: pages are working, admin panel works, pictures are apparent, however, CSS/Javascript doesn't work (getting 404 in chrome dev tools).

I've tried cleaning the cache manually and with:

sudo bin/magento cache:clean

I've tried deploying static content:
sudo php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f

I've tried standard deployment:

sudo bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f -s standard

I've tried to reconfigure the 'web/unsecure/base_url' and 'web/secure/base_url' with /magento prefix and without.

I've tried to delete static content inside the pub/static folder.

Here is the link to the website:

http://35.161.56.182/magento

Hope you will be able to help me.

Best Regards,

Moshe.

[Manish Mittal · Accepted solution]

Hello @moshe_biton

Please check .htaccess file once in pub and pub/static folder. If file is missing then upload this.

If this will not work then run below commands:

chmod -R 0777 var/ pub/ generated/
php bin/magento setup:upgrade
php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f en_US
php bin/magento cache:flush
chmod -R 0777 var/ pub/ generated/

[moshe_biton]

Didn't work...

[moshe_biton]

I've already tried it before and it didn't work, but somehow, it does right now. 

Thanks

[Manish Mittal]

@moshe_biton

Glad to hear. cheers