Question

After doing the python manage.py collectstatic I found out that I can access everything in static/css but not in static/admin. To be very clear:

1. I go to: http://mysite.com/static/admin/css/login.css and fails
2. Manually move the folder static/admin to static/css
3. I go to: http://mysite.com/static/css/admin/css/login.css and works!

Notice the change from /static/admin/css/ to /static/css/admin/css/ in the URLS. This means that this doesn’t solve the problem because the templates continue pointing to the first URL.

I know, serving static admin files has been asked 100 times in stackoverflow but I still cannot make it work (and I am not alone for the comments I have read). It seems nobody has mention this weird problem of accessing the static/css folder and static/anyother_folder.

Some extra details:

There is no errors in the collectstatic, there is no problems with the application css’s. This is what I have in my settings.py):

MEDIA_ROOT = join(PROJECT_ROOT,'../media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
STATIC_ROOT = join(PROJECT_ROOT,'../static')
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

I also have tried the deprecated ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX without any result.

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'

My nginx configuration is simple and clear.

location /static {
    alias /home/the_home/where_the_static_is/static/;
}
location /media {
    alias /home/the_home/where_the_media_is/media/;
}

I am using the last version of Django (1.4.2).

Answer 1

Puff. So, here it was. I had another folder in nginx redirecting the /static/admin/ to the Django installation in the virtual environment. In the organization, we use a virtual machine template that pre-configure our Django projects. So, revisiting the nginx configuration I found this:

location /static/admin {
   alias /path/to/virtualenvs/my_virtualenv/path_to_the_static_admin;
}

Apparently this worked for Django 1.3 but the path changed at some point.