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Django Admin Page missing CSS

Asked 2011-04-04T10:33:13.290
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I saw this question and recommendation from Django Projects here but still can't get this to work. My Django Admin pages are not displaying the CSS at all.

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This is my current configuration.

settings.py

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/admin/'

httpd.conf

<VirtualHost *:80>
    DocumentRoot /home/django/sgel
    ServerName ec2-***-**-***-***.ap-**********-1.compute.amazonaws.com
    ErrorLog /home/django/sgel/logs/apache_error.log
    CustomLog /home/django/sgel/logs/apache_access.log combined
    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/django/sgel/apache/django.wsgi

    <Directory /home/django/sgel/media>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    <Directory /home/django/sgel/apache>
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    LogLevel warn

    Alias /media/ /home/django/sgel/media/

</VirtualHost>

<VirtualHost *:80>
   ServerName sgel.com
   Redirect permanent / http://www.sgel.com/
</VirtualHost>

In addition, I also ran the following to create (I think) the symbolic link ln -s /home/djangotest/sgel/media/admin/ /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/

UPDATE

In my httpd.conf file, 

User django
Group django

When I run ls -l in my /media directory

drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr  4 11:03 admin
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    9 Apr  8 09:02 test.txt

Should that root user be django instead?

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Another method I just found, and it looks like a properly supported method.

Make sure you have the staticfiles module in your settings. Also configure the STATIC_ROOT option.

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/staticfiles/#module-django.contrib.staticfiles

Create your /static/ folder and set permissions.

Configure apache with a /static/ alias.

alias /static <path to project root>/static/
<Directory "<path to project root>/static/">
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>

then from your project folder run

sudo python manage.py collectstatic [-n to do a dry run]

All this looks like it does is copy the admin static files to your projects folder for web serving.

answered 2011-08-31T07:50:55.227
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So the first thing you want to do is change directory to your static folder and add a symlink.

I did this with a virtual environment so I use

ln -s ~/virtualenv/my-virtualenv/lib/python2.x/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin admin

The next step is to edit your httpd.conf

Alias /static/admin/ ~/mysite/static/admin/

Restart your apache server and voila!

answered 2012-10-17T16:57:15.943

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