Apache not serving django admin static files

Question

Let me thanks you guys at the Stack Overflow community for helping me with various Django and Apache (with mod_wsgi) errors. I've asked about 5 related questions so far and now I'm getting closer and closer to getting my content out on a production site!

So I know there are many similar questions about this and I have read a bunch of questions about serving static media files on Django.

I read about STATIC_URL, STATIC_ROOT, the (soon to be obsolete) ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX, and setting a Alias /media/ ... in the Apache configuration. I tried to test out each solution one by one, but I couldn't get anything working.

Here is what my admin site looks like right now

I'm also having a weird case where any subdomain works on my server. For example I was trying to set up my server so that http://www.satoshi.example.com/ would allow my normal (non-Django) content, while http://django.satoshi.example.com/ would allow my Django content to be served. But currently any subdomain, whether satoshi.example.com or blahblahasdas.satoshi.example.com is serving my Django files (I know because I can go to the /admin page on both site, although they will be in different sessions).

Anyway here are my files on the server which is running CentOS (not sure which version), Apache 2.2.15, Python 2.6.6, django 1.3.1, and mod_wsgi 3.2.

I will post what I think is the most relevant files and configuration below:

Apache throws these errors everytime I restart

[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'> ignored
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'> ignored
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'> ignored
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'> ignored
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'> ignored
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'> ignored
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'> ignored
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'> ignored
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart
[Wed Feb 29 00:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in <module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'> ignored
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [notice] Digest: done
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [warn] mod_wsgi: Compiled for Python/2.6.2.
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [warn] mod_wsgi: Runtime using Python/2.6.6.
[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3 PHP/5.3.3 mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips mod_wsgi/3.2 Python/2.6.6 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations

Here is /var/www/html/mysite/apache/apache_django_wsgi.conf which gets loaded into my httpd.conf with the option NameVirtualHost *:80

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName django.satoshi.example.com
    ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/django_error_log"

    WSGIDaemonProcess django
    WSGIProcessGroup django

    Alias /media/ "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media"
    <Directory "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media">
        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes
        Allow from all
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    <Directory "/var/www/html/mysite">
        Order allow,deny
        Options Indexes
        Allow from all
        IndexOptions FancyIndexing
    </Directory>

    WSGIScriptAlias / "/var/www/html/mysite/apache/django.wsgi"

    <Directory "/var/www/html/mysite/apache">
        Order deny,allow
        Allow from all
    </Directory>
</VirtualHost>

Here is /var/www/html/mysite/apache/django.wsgi

import os
import sys

paths = [
    '/var/www/html/mysite',
    '/var/www/html',
    '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/',
]

for path in paths:
    if path not in sys.path:
        sys.path.append(path)

os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'

import django.core.handlers.wsgi
application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()

And finally here is part of /var/www/html/mysite/settings.py

# Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. 
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/media/"
MEDIA_ROOT = ''

# URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
# trailing slash.
# Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/", "http://example.com/media/"
MEDIA_URL = ''

# Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
# Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
# in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
# Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/static/"
PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.normpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static')

# URL prefix for static files.
# Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

# URL prefix for admin static files -- CSS, JavaScript and images.
# Make sure to use a trailing slash.
# Examples: "http://foo.com/static/admin/", "/static/admin/".
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'

# Additional locations of static files
STATICFILES_DIRS = ( 
    # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
    # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
    # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
)

# List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
# various locations.
STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
#   'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
)

Let me know if you guys need any other files. Thanks in advance!

Solution 1

I think you should change:

Alias /media/ "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media"

to:

Alias /static/admin/ "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media"

Because you have:

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'

Solution 2

That's because you haven't setup your STATIC files...

Add to settings:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/static/'

Then run "python manage.py collectstatic"

That will put all the files under STATIC_ROOT which STATIC_URL will serve... You shouldn't point Apache at your Python lib files!!

If you want your own app-specific static files as well, setup "STATICFILES_DIRS".

Solution 3

I got solution, I looked at the access_log files inside /var/log/httpd/

127.0.0.1 - - [28/Dec/2013:14:49:20 -0500] "GET /static/admin/css/login.css HTTP/1.1" 200 836 "http://127.0.0.1/admin/" "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.24) Gecko/20111109 CentOS/3.6.24-3.el6.centos Firefox/3.6.24"

so I added following tags in /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file,

Alias /static /usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static

inside <VirtualHost 127.0.0.1:80> tag

then I restarted service using

service httpd restart

and it Works!!!

Comments

[Chris Pratt]

Excellent question. You've done your homework and provided plenty of information to work with. Keep it up.

[edu222]

Great question, I was also lost and adding ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX to my setting file did the trick.

[Chris Pratt]

That only applies to Django 1.4, which is not an official release yet (though it is dropping very soon). In Django 1.3, you need ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX. It won't work without it.

[jpic]

Thanks for the heads up, I think he just needs to change his Alias to match is ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX after all.

[hobbes3]

Great! That worked perfect. Wow that was an easy solution that I overlooked... Later I'll have to do the standard thing and have something like lighthttpd handle static files. But that will be another question on another day :P. Thanks @jpic. You have helped me out before too :-).

[conorgriffin]

Shouldn't 'Alias /static/admin/ "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media‌​"' have a trailing '/'?

[aiham]

On Django 1.5 with Ubuntu 12.10 I had to use: "Alias /static/admin/ "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin‌​/static/admin/"

[Alessandro Da Rugna]

Perfect answer!! Also thanks @aiham for this last detail on ubuntu

[Miquel]

Thanks! Just a detail: If you also have the Alias /static/ for the general static files, be sure to include the Alias /static/admin/ before the general one.

[doniyor]

@aiham you saved my ass bro

[bdf]

This should be the accepted answer - collectstatic moves necessary files to your static dir and serves them from there.