django1.9 does not load css from static admin

Question

I am currently using django version 1.9. I try to create a new superuser then I run the server and try to login through the browser by navigating to 127.0.0.1:8000/admin, but the django admin page seem does not have any css. When i do inspect element in the browser itself I come to know that it link to two css files one is base.css and another one is login.css but those two contain nothing when i try to view it from the browser. After that i try to find those file in the installed django directory and i found out the base.css and login.css then i copy the all the code in that file to the base.css and login.css which i opened in the browser, then i got the beautiful django login page with proper css. I don't know what to do with this.

This is my console:

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I am using python 3.4.3 and django1.9.0. Thanks

Yes it does. See this question: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5836674/why-does-debug-false-setting-make-my-django-static-files-access-fail — neosergio, Jul 26 '16 at 13:07

Aida.Mirabadi · Accepted Answer · 2016-07-26T13:23:54.217

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You have to set STATIC_ROOT, STATIC_URL and STATICFILES_DIRS in settings.py as below:

BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))

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

and then try to run:

python manage.py collectstatic

edited Jul 26 '16 at 13:23

answered Jul 26 '16 at 12:12

Aida.Mirabadi

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I think this method is going to work but not with the admin template. – Ken Phanith Jul 26 '16 at 12:29
@KenPhanith This config also works with admin templates. i added new variable in my answer. try it again. – Aida.Mirabadi Jul 26 '16 at 13:23

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 26 '16 at 12:48

If you are using django-rest-framework see this.

You need to add it as,

INSTALLED_APPS = (
    ...
    'rest_framework',
)

and in urls.py:

urlpatterns = [
    ...
    url(r'^api-auth/', include('rest_framework.urls', namespace='rest_framework'))
]

It will automatically search and catch all the static files.

django1.9 does not load css from static admin

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