Ok very weird issue here. In the base.html file for the admin site they

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Ok very weird issue here. In the base.html file for the admin site they

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Ok very weird issue here.

In the base.html file for the admin site they have this:

<script type="text/javascript">window.__admin_media_prefix__ = "{% filter escapejs %}{% static "admin/" %}{% endfilter %}";</script>

The important part is this {% static "admin/" %}. Its only used for a handful of things in javascript, one of them being the calendar icon url for the date widget.

Locally this works just fine, and the url ends up being /static/admin/. However on production, it ends up as http://myaws.s3.address/admin with no trailing slash.

I can’t figure out for the life of me how this might happen. This is Django 1.4. My STATIC_URL for aws ends with a trailing slash. This has got to be in the staticfiles app somewhere right? I’m not sure how to track this one down.