Css not loading in my VPS for magento 2 – SEO

Cleared cache,
Given 777 permission to all files and folder in maganto directory,
still no solution..

I can’t even access the admin panel, because links don’t work properly.

This was a fresh install, I did

git clone magento_https_link

where link is the github link for magento2 @ github.

Everything went out well, I followed the official tutorial, installed composer thing and all, I installed it, followed steps to the end, and when installation was complete, I clicked on frontend and no css, and backend, no css.
Css was working fine during installation.

When I press F12 and switch to console, it says error 404 on css , javascript , and image files. And if I try to visit the url manually for any css they are not there. Its really weird.

And I don’t know what is css js merge. No idea about this.

My core config in database:

mysql> select * from `core_config_data`;
+-----------+---------+----------+-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
| config_id | scope   | scope_id | path                          | value                                    |
+-----------+---------+----------+-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
|         1 | default |        0 | web/seo/use_rewrites          | 1                                        |
|         2 | default |        0 | web/unsecure/base_url         | http://NAME_OF_SITE/magento/magento2/  |
|         3 | default |        0 | web/secure/base_url           | https://NAME_OF_SITE/magento/magento2/ |
|         4 | default |        0 | general/locale/code           | en_US                                    |
|         5 | default |        0 | web/secure/use_in_frontend    | NULL                                     |
|         6 | default |        0 | web/secure/use_in_adminhtml   | NULL                                     |
|         7 | default |        0 | general/locale/timezone       | XX/XX                             |
|         8 | default |        0 | currency/options/base         | XX                                      |
|         9 | default |        0 | currency/options/default      | XX                                      |
|        10 | default |        0 | currency/options/allow        | XX                                      |
|        11 | default |        0 | general/region/display_all    | 1                                        |
|        12 | default |        0 | general/region/state_required | AT,BR,CA,CH,DE,EE,ES,FI,FR,LT,LV,RO,US   |
|        13 | default |        0 | catalog/category/root_id      | NULL                                     |
+-----------+---------+----------+-------------------------------+------------------------------------------+
13 rows in set (0.00 sec)