Django admin site not showing CSS style

apache, django

Solution

Your Apache configuration requires that all static content (CSS, JS, images etc) should be in the mysite/static directory. You should collect your static content from apps into the mysite/static directory first:

cd /home/ubuntu/cs462/mysite
python manage.py collectstatic

Update: If you did not specify a location for static content, you should add the following lines to your `settings.py`:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

Problem

My Django admin website (it's completely default, not customized) is not showing the expected CSS. It looks like this: And I can log in: But it is supposed to look like this: How do I fix this? Other info that might help: I'm running on an Amazon EC2 instance on port 80 and connecting to it using a real URL. I set it up using this tutorial: http://www.nickpolet.com/blog/deploying-django-on-aws/1/ Following that tutorial, I put this code into a file called `/etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mysite.conf`. I don't understand what this code is doing, so I think it might be related to the problem. /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/mysite.conf: ``` WSGIScriptAlias / /home/ubuntu/cs462/mysite/mysite/wsgi.py WSGIPythonPath /home/ubuntu/cs462/mysite <Directory /home/ubuntu/cs462/mysite/mysite> <Files wsgi.py> Order deny,allow Require all granted </Files> </Directory> Alias /media/ /home/ubuntu/cs462/mysite/media/ Alias /static/ /home/ubuntu/cs462/mysite/static/ <Directory /home/ubuntu/cs462/mysite/static> Require all granted </Directory> <Directory /home/ubuntu/cs462/mysite/media> Require all granted </Directory> ``` Directory structure: ``` /home/ubuntu/cs462/ mysite/ manage.py db.sqlite3 mysite/ __init__.py __init__.pyc settings.py settings.pyc urls.py wsgi.py homepage/ admin.py admin.pyc __init__.py __init__.pyc migrations models.py models.pyc tests.py views.py ``` Last part of settings.py: ``` # Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images) # https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/static-files/ STATIC_URL = '/static/' ```

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