Magento 2.1.9 CSS and JS files are not working on both the frontend and admin panel

[FlamyTech]

I have Magento 2.1.9 installed on my cPanel shared hosting account. Everything worked fine until I asked my hosting provider to run the necessary commands during Tawk.to chat integration. The commands he ran made my site to display blank pages.

I managed to get the site back online by running the following commands:

php bin/magento setup:upgrade php bin/magento
php setup:static-content:deploy
bin/magento cache:flush
chmod -R 777 var pub

Even though I can now access my site, but the CSS formatting and JavaScript in both the admin panel and frontend don't work.
See how my admin panel looks like:
Note: In line 607 of the app/etc/di.xml file, I had already changed the following content:

Magento\Framework\App\View\Asset\MaterializationStrategy\Symlink

to:

Magento\Framework\App\View\Asset\MaterializationStrategy\Copy

Does anyone know how to fix this issue?

Please, note that I set the file permissions for the directories below to 777.

/pub/
/pub/static/

And the following have 775 permissions

/pub/static/cache/
/pub/static/frontend/
/pub/static/adminhtml/
/pub/static/_requirejs/

What are the proper file permissions for the above-mentioned directories? 755 or 777?

Please, I'd really appreciate your time and insight in helping me to resolve this issue. Thanks.

[Tarandeep Singh]

@FlamyTechDo you see any error in browser console? You can also inspect the element and try to browse the URL of JS/CSS file directly in the browser. This will give you more insight on the issue.

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[FlamyTech]

Thanks, but I've already done a fresh installation of Magento.

[Tarandeep Singh]

@FlamyTechIs your issue is resolved or still need help with it?

[FlamyTech · Accepted solution]

@Tarandeep Singh, I can say the issue is over, because I deleted that installation from the server and installed another one. Thanks a lot.

[Mysehari]

Hi i am using godaddy sharing host server. I am also facing same issue when I installed magento 2. Unable to load css and images, js. Can you please guide me how to resolve the issue.

[Tarandeep Singh]

@MysehariI believe you need to clear the cache and deploy the static content to make it working. Let know if that works for you.

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