Why is Laravel 11 trying to find a Vite manifest inside my CSS directory during production build?

After building for production, my Laravel 11 application throws an error indicating that the Vite manifest is not found at a location inside my CSS directory, for example:

Vite manifest not found at: /xxxx/xxxxxx.xxxxxxxxx.xx/laravel.xxxxx.xxxxxxx.xx/public/resources/css/custom.css/manifest.json

This seems strange because it appears to be looking for a manifest file inside the CSS directory. The Blade file includes the following vite directive:

@vite("resources/js/app.js", "resources/css/custom.css")

and here is my vite configuration:

JAVASCRIPTCopied
import { defineConfig } from "vite";
import laravel from "laravel-vite-plugin";

export default defineConfig({
  plugins: [
    laravel({
      input: [
        "resources/css/app.css",
        "resources/js/app.js",
        "resources/css/custom.css",
      ],
      refresh: true,
    }),
  ],
});

Has anyone seen this issue or know what might be causing Vite to look for a manifest inside the CSS directory?