Missing Backoffice CSS Files for Forms - v13.8.0 and Forms v13.4.1

I am looking for some guidance. My Umbraco backoffice - forms in particular - is missing the generated CSS file …/sb/umbraco-backoffice-css.css.v… It works fine on my local development env. but missing on production env. The prod env. uses the Production Runtime Mode.

In Umbraco 13, in non-debug mode css files and js files get bundled, so you might not see the individual files anymore, so that makes sense. However, I guess it’s not working?

Could also be a cacheing issue.. (locally debug would be true and cacheing would be timestamp - so no minification and compression and minimal cacheing) what setting do you have for runtimeminification for production?
Runtime minification settings | Umbraco CMS

you could test this theory on production by visiting /sb/umbraco-backoffice-css.css.v???? directly and altering the version stamp to see if the content served changes.

Note that not all minification settings are allowed in Production Runtime mode.

See the docs here.. :slight_smile:
Runtime Modes | Umbraco CMS

Umbraco:CMS:RuntimeMinification:CacheBuster is set to a fixed cache buster like Version or AppDomain ;

I normally stick to Version (without specifiy the version as then UmbracoCore generates a hash based around your www project assembly version and the umbraco version… you are incrementing assembly version on each release though??? :wink: )

@LuukPeters and @mistyn8, thanks for the heads-up. I didn’t have that configured correctly, but I tried the different runtime mode configurations, and I’m still missing the CSS file. The missing styles appear to be isolated to the Umb Forms interface; the rest of the back office looks normal. The compiled js and init CSS file are present on the prod backoffice*

Any information that i need to provide to help further the troubleshooting?