GitLab Pages Deployment Drops Linked CSS Stylesheet
A developer's static site renders correctly locally but loses all CSS styling once deployed via GitLab Pages, despite an unchanged relative stylesheet link and a standard gitlab-ci.yml pages job. The root cause is unclear to the poster, pointing to a common but confusing static-site path/deployment pitfall for beginners.
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