Flush JS/CSS and Static Files cache removes css files form app folder

[dianreytan]

I'm experiencing a really strange issue:

when i flush js/css and static files cache, all css files inside the app folder are deleted:

/public_html/app/design/frontend/vendor/theme/web/css

Because of this, pub/static folder is updated without the needed css files and the front end is broken.

i have absolutely no clue on what is causing this and how to fix it, everything worked normally for more than a month.

thanks in advance for helping me

[Damian Culotta]

Hi @dianreytan,

Is your store on developer or production mode?

Also, I've saw your root directory point to the magento root and should be path/to/magento/pub.

If you are running on production mode, can you try to regenerate the static assets with:

bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy

You can see more about this topic here: https://devdocs.magento.com/guides/v2.2/config-guide/cli/config-cli-subcommands-static-view.html

[michael_oluwaseyi]

@dianreytan where you able to solve this issue? if yes, how did you solve it. i am experiencing the same issue.

Thanks in advance

[Damian Culotta]

Hi @michael_oluwaseyi,

Can you sahre a public URL?
Did you get 404 errors on static assets?

[michael_oluwaseyi]

@Damian Culotta Thanks for your reply, i have solved the issue.. luckily for me i had a back up file of the custom CSS file stored on my computer so i just uploaded it back to the root directory..

 HOw can i change my root directory to the /pub directory as you have said.

Thanks in advance.

[ammad_nazir]

yes all assets get 404 error