Admin login can't find css

Questions
1

Silverstripe Version: 4.1

The login screen doesn’t load any CSS and I’m getting an error thrown in SSViewer::construct:

**None of the following templates could be found: Array ( [0] =>Array ( [type] =>Includes [0] => Header ) [1] => Header ) in themes "Array ( [0] => $public [1] => $default ) "**

I have a theme.yml file from the Lessons site:

---
Name: mytheme
---
SilverStripe\View\SSViewer:
  themes:
- '$public'
- '$default'

The files it can’t find are reset, typography, form and layout.

I downloaded the zip of 4.1 and installed it through the installer, I haven’t done anything with composer. When I look through the files I don’t see any css, I do see scss in /vendor/silverstripe/admin/client/src/styles.

There’s a code comment in _forms.scss

... base styles defined in framework/css/Form.css

I don’t see any css directory in /vendor/silverstripe/framework

EDIT: yes I have been ?flushing…
I don’t have a themes directory at all as per the Lessons instructions.

2

This things a mystery… It’s decided to stop throwing the error now.

Now I have an un-styled login form. The template used to render it is

/vendor/silverstripe/cms/templates/BlankPage.ss

Which unsurprisingly is… a blank page.

Here’s what I see. “Chosen” there is the value of $this->chosen in SSViewer::__construct

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SilverStripe does ship with a branded CMS login right? It’s not that it’s considered part of our projects and we have to lay it up?

3

The login page itself is unstyled, it takes it’s styling from your theme, usually. If there’s no theme (yet), it’ll fall back to a blank page.

4

Sonofa… that is super weird.

Thanks for filling me in @Firesphere