Magento2 calling assets in folder pub/static/versionXXXXXXX after static content deploy

Question

I'm running the command php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy which exports all the assets in pub/static (creates folders: _requirejs, adminhtml and frontend), changes the deployed version in deployed_version.txt, and finishes with 0 errors.

The problem is that my frontend is calling assets like:

$BASE_URL/pub/static/**version$DEPLOYED_VERSION**/frontend/... (e.g. http://local.estores.com/pub/static/version1503583668/frontend/Magento/luma/en_US/mage/calendar.css)

instead of:

$BASE_URL/pub/static/frontend/... (without the version folder).

Not sure why it's doing this, or how to change it. I upgraded and recompiled. The deploy process is creating the files, so I guess it's not a permissions thing.

Answer 1

It is an magento2 feature.

magento2 used to overcome the browser cache for Static content.

There will be file at pub/static/.htaccess which internally rewrite all

BASE_URL/pub/static/**version$DEPLOYED_VERSION**/frontend/

to

BASE_URL/pub/static/frontend/.

In your case, you have an issue with rewrite

Static Content is not loading after upgrade