title: Magento 2.1.9 static files not generating on production - leaves admin blank (no styles, no scripts loading)
body: <p>Upgraded to Magento 2.1.9 from 2.1.8.</p>
  
  <p><strong>Steps to replicate:</strong></p>
  
  <p>Deploy in production mode </p>
  
  <pre><code>deploy:mode:set production
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Set the following paths to 0 within db:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dev/template/allow_symlink
  dev/js/merge_files
  dev/js/enable_js_bundling
  dev/js/minify_files
  dev/css/merge_css_files
  dev/css/minify_files
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Set the following paths value to 1:</p>
  
  <pre><code>dev/static/sign
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Deploy static assets:</p>
  
  <pre><code>php bin/magento setup:static-content:deploy en_AU en_US &amp;&amp; php bin/magento c:f
  </code></pre>
  
  <p><strong>Results</strong>
  Go to <em>mydomain.com/admin</em> and see:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OdQa0.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/OdQa0.png" alt="No admin styles or scripts loading"></a></p>
  
  <p>Inspect this, what do we find:
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tfU7n.png" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/tfU7n.png" alt="Throwing up 404s trying to load static minified files"></a>
  A bunch of 404s to static minified files, visiting these files in from CLI also confirms they actually don't exist.</p>
  
  <p>I thought that it might be a locale issue, <a href="https://magento.stackexchange.com/questions/137762/magento2-1-not-loading-css-js-and-admin-panel-after-installation">saw this article</a> but this didn't work for me.</p>
  
  <p>I have minification turned off in my settings, all caches cleared (including Varnish). Yet this issue still persists. Front-end appears fine on the other hand.</p>
  
  <p>Any help would be much appreciated, otherwise I suppose I could train the client to edit the db directly!</p>