Re: Newbie question, I'm having difficulty getting the admin panel to work!

Hello,

I'm not exactly sure about your other problems, but the problem with not getting any styles seem to me like you didn't set your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX correctly in your settings file and/or your web server configuration file. You must let it know how to access all the javascript, css and image files to display your admin pages correctly.

I'm not sure what type web server mediatemple uses, but I am using nginx (under Debian stable) and I had to put this in my server configuration file:

server {

...

location ^~ /static/admin/ {

  alias /usr/lib/python2.5/sites-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/;

}

location ^~ /static/ {

  root /var/www;

}

...

For apache, I believe an equivalent setting would be something like this in your virtualhost file:

...

Alias /static/admin/ "/usr/lib/python2.5/sites-packages/django/contrib/admin/media"

...

And in the settings.py file of my project, I set the following:

...

STATIC_URL = '/var/www/static/'

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'

This tells Django to issue the '/static/admin/' prefix whenever it needs something to display the admin pages, and then the webserver will follow up by retrieving them from the correct place (/path/to/python/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media).

I hope this works. Good luck!

Eiji

P.S. What erratic behaviors are you seeing? Please explain more.

On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 1:25 PM, Rishi <rishter@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi everyone,
I've just started using Django, and everything has been smooth sailing
up until this part. I added 'django.contrib.admin' in settings.py for
installed apps, and changed urls.py to allow for the admin page to
work. However, the admin page works erratically. That is, at some
points no matter whether I'm at my root project page or at the admin
page, I'll always see that light blue django launch page. At other
times, I get the admin login page to work, but NEVER with any styles
associated with it. It's always just html plaintext. What's going on,
and how do I fix it?

A few specifics about my setup. I'm running django completely remotely
(mediatemple (ve) server), and am using cyberduck/vim concurrently to
edit the files on the server. I'm working on a mac on my side, and I
have doublechecked each configuration file to make sure everything is
saved correctly. I've also installed phpmyadmin and have checked the
database to make sure that's set up correctly. To the best of my
knowledge it is.

Thanks for any and all help!

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