{"id":687,"date":"2019-11-11T00:03:03","date_gmt":"2019-11-11T00:03:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/2019\/11\/11\/remove-version-number-in-file-paths-in-magento-2\/"},"modified":"2025-10-03T13:16:49","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T07:46:49","slug":"remove-version-number-in-file-paths-in-magento-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/remove-version-number-in-file-paths-in-magento-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Remove Version Number In File Paths in Magento 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Magento 2 offers a feature of static content signing to invalidate the browser cache for static resources. To do so, it adds a deployment version to the URL of the static files.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, these files\u2019 URLs contain the deployed version due to which 404 error occurs.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The solution is to remove the version number in file paths in Magento 2 and there are two methods given below for the same.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Methods to Remove Version Number In File Paths in Magento 2:<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method 1: From Admin Panel<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">1. <strong>Login<\/strong> to admin panel<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">2. Go to <strong>Stores &gt; Configuration<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">3. Under <strong>Advanced<\/strong>, select <strong>Developer<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">4. Expand <strong>Static Files Settings<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">5. Set \u201cNo\u201d to <strong>Sign Static Files<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/11\/1_How-To-Remove-Version-Number-In-File-Paths-in-Magento-2-1024x434.png\" alt=\"How To Remove Version Number In File Paths in Magento 2\" class=\"wp-image-6882\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Method 2: Run the below commands<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"EnlighterJSRAW\" data-enlighter-language=\"sql\" data-enlighter-theme=\"\" data-enlighter-highlight=\"\" data-enlighter-linenumbers=\"\" data-enlighter-lineoffset=\"\" data-enlighter-title=\"\" data-enlighter-group=\"\">INSERT INTO `core_config_data` (\n    `config_id`,\n    `scope`,\n    `scope_id`,\n    `path`,\n    `value`\n) VALUES (\n    NULL,\n    'default',\n    0,\n    'dev\/static\/sign',\n    0\n);<\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Now, run the below commands<\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>php bin\/magento setup:static-content:deploy -f\nphp bin\/magento cache:flush\nphp bin\/magento cache:clean<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Try any of the above methods to disable static content signing in Magento 2.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Feel free to share the solution with fellow developers via social media.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Magento 2 offers a feature of static content signing to invalidate the browser cache for static resources. To do so, it adds a deployment version&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magento"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=687"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23099,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/687\/revisions\/23099"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meetanshi.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}