[FIXED] Django Admin Page missing CSS

Issue

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.

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?

UPDATE 2 When I enter ls -la in my /media/admin folder

total 12
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 03:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr  8 09:02 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   60 Apr 13 03:33 media -> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/

The thing is, when I navigate to /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/, the folder was empty. So I copied the CSS, IMG and JS folders from my Django installation into /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/ and it still didn't work

Solution

In addition to correcting the symbolic link as Daniel Roseman suggested, you'll need to make sure that the user that is running Apache has read access to the admin media.

• If you do ls -l in your media directory, do you see the symbolic link?
• If you cd admin from your media directory, does it work? If you then run ls can you see the admin media?
• Does the user that runs Apache have read access to the admin media?

If all those things work, then please update your question with your current configuration and results of those commands and we'll take another look.

Response to Update: Ok, the permissions look ok. It looks like you've got the directory structure in your media directory a little bit wrong.

The fact that /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/ was empty is disturbing, too. Once you solve the immediate problem you may want to look into reinstall django in the expected place.

Anyways, here's how the structure should look:

$ cd media
$ ls -la
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Apr 13 03:33 .
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 4096 Apr  8 09:02 ..
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root   60 Apr 13 03:33 admin -> /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    9 Apr  8 09:02 test.txt

That is, inside of the media/ directory their should be a link called admin directly to the /admin/media directory of your django installation.

To fix what you've got, inside of the media/admin/ directory run:

rm media
cd ..
rmdir admin

and then re-create the symlink as suggested in Daniel Roseman's answer.

Answered By - Sean W.