[Django]-Django Admin CSS missing

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Django recommends that you deploy static files with a web server other than wsgi.

  1. In settings.py, set:

STATIC_ROOT = 'static'

  1. Run python manage.py collectstatic, which will copy the Django admin static files to /path/to/project/static/

  2. Configure your static file server. If you use Nginx, you could add this config: 

    location /static/ {                              
    alias /path/to/project/static/;  
    expires modified +1w;                        
}

  3. Reload your web server

You should now have access to the static files.

👤jingping.yi

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In Django 1.4 ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is deprecated. Here are the steps I followed to catch up with these somewhat recent Django changes:

  1. in settings.py, add django.contrib.staticfiles to INSTALLED_APPS

  2. in settings.py define STATIC_URL — the staticfiles app won’t run without it. While using runserver they’ll get handled magically, but when you deploy, this needs to be a location where those resources can be fetched by a browser.

I think that’s all there was to it.

👤Joe Germuska

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I’m using Django 1.4.3

What did NOT work for me:
No matter how much I edited ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX in settings.py I noticed no change in the HTML generated for the Django Admin pages. It always says /media/admin/base.css when I view the source.

What DID work for me.
Copied the ‘admin’ folder from /django/contrib/admin/static/ and pasted it into my projects ‘media’ folder

Now it works great.

👤nu everest

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It seems dumb, but I actually had this exact issue and the solution was to set DEBUG=False to DEBUG=True on my local dev environment. When debug is set to False, it thinks it’s in a production environment which relies on a place to put static files, such as /var/www/html/static, whereas the debug set to True just uses the local directory.

👤Blairg23

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Also make sure that AppDirectoriesFinder is not commented, happens when you’re trying to customize your own app structure. Unfortunatelly it’s pointless to seek such information in official docs.

STATICFILES_FINDERS = [
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
]
👤bios

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just change one thing in settings.py

DEBUG = False # not working if you are not serve your static files for production.

just change

DEBUG = True
👤Umer Aziz

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You need a trailing slash in your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX setting.

Change to:

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'
👤Yuji 'Tomita' Tomita

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in my project, the solution is in settings.py, set:

DEBUG = False # debug false mod not working css

👤xingpei Pang

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I’m using chef to auto-build my django server on an AWS Ubuntu server. This post helped, but what I wound up doing was to add the directory to the package admin static pages in a local_setings.py:
https://github.com/jaycrossler/geoq-chef-repo/blob/master/cookbooks/geoq/templates/default/local_settings.py.erb#L16

(added to local_settings.py or to settings.py):

STATICFILES_DIRS = ('<%= node['geoq']['virtualenv']['location'] %>/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/',)

This resulted in local_settings.py having:

STATICFILES_DIRS = ('/var/lib/geoq/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/',)

Note, that if you have other items already in your STATICFILES_DIRS, you might want to append to the list, rather than overwriting it.

👤JayCrossler

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One solution might be to add your local IP to the ALLOWED_HOSTS list in settings.py

e.g.

CURRENT_IP = '192.168.0.123'
ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', 'localhost', '0.0.0.0', CURRENT_IP]
👤David Schumann

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you need

urlpatterns += static(settings.STATIC_URL, document_root=settings.STATIC_ROOT)
👤Ryabchenko Alexander

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I don’t know how it was resolved, but I took these steps when I encountered the same problem. I simply add these line in settings.py.

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'

STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder','django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder','compressor.finders.CompressorFinder', )

i hope this will help you all.

👤vishwajeet vishwakarma

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In settings.py
Don’t use tuple for the

STATICFILES_DIRS =(
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ‘static’),
)

you should use list,like this

STATICFILES_DIRS =[
os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ‘static’),
]

👤zijie lin

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