Question

I’m trying to deploy Django to apache but can’t get it to serve my static admin files. It seems to be looking for them under /var/www/static and I can’t seem to be able to change that.

The admin site seem to be working except for styling. I get a title and a log in form. My django app is working too. It’s the static files for the admin that aren’t served.

Using Django 1.4.1.

The files are under /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static and linked to from /home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/static/admin.

The apache error log says this

[Sun Sep 30 10:57:20 2012] [error] [client 192.168.1.10] File does not exist: /var/www/home, referer: http://dathui.example.com/vaccapp/admin/
[Sun Sep 30 10:57:20 2012] [error] [client 192.168.1.10] File does not exist: /var/www/home, referer: http://dathui.example.com/vaccapp/admin/

But I’m not sure how to change it.

In my django site config I have

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [e-mail]

    ServerRoot "/home/dutt/vaccapp"
    DocumentRoot "/home/dutt/vaccapp"
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/dutt/vaccapp/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /static/ "/home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/static/"
<Directory "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static">
    Order allow,deny
    Options Indexes
    Allow from all
    IndexOptions FancyIndexing
</Directory>

ServerRoot is not set in apache2.conf.

From my settings.py

STATIC_ROOT = '/home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

Nothing added to STATICFILES_DIRS.

This is added to my apache2.conf

WSGIScriptAlias /vaccapp /home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/wsgi.py
WSGIPythonPath /home/dutt/vaccapp

<Directory /home/dutt/vaccapp>
<Files wsgi.py>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Files>
</Directory>

Answer 1

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is set by default to /static/admin/ # Deprecated in Django 1.4 (now using STATIC_URL + 'admin/'. The result is the same.

Here’s the fixes to the apache config:

Alias /static/admin "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static"
Alias /static "/home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/static"
<Directory "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static">
    Order allow,deny
    Options Indexes
    Allow from all
    IndexOptions FancyIndexing
</Directory>

And the WsgiScriptAlias had to be moved from the main apache config into the VirtualHost.

After a long discussion we found the problem was that Django did not install the admin static properly … they were symlinked to eachother (very weird). A Django reinstall fixed it and it worked fine now.