Fix for Django Tutorial (part 2), getting admin-site show CSS correctly with development server

[psgg1981]

Hi Django team,

I'm having a lot of fun with Django's tutorial, thanks for sharing!

I must confess I did have a lot of work to understand why and how the admin-site didn't show any css as shown in the tutorial (when using default development server). I looked into a lot of forum posts and web sites and none of them returned a complete answer to my issue. So I've decided to write to you about the fix I think you should include in part 2. The complete step-by-step resolution is available in Django User Groups at ​https://groups.google.com/d/topic/django-users/UKIyg2RSltM/discussion

Let me know what you think, I hope it'll help any newcomer as well.

Cheers,
Pedro

[Jannis Leidel]

Are you using Django 1.3-beta1?

[Russell Keith-Magee]

I can't reproduce the problem, and the linked discussion points to a conversation about configuring apache -- it's not a step-by-step resolution for a problem with the default development server as described.

I'm going to assume that this was caused by Windows permission problems, and that it has been resolved by r15119. Please reopen if the problem hasn't been resolved or you can provide more (or more accurate) details.

[rk.aranas@…]

Encountered the same problem. Am on Windows XP and using the Django 1.3 that came with the DjangoStack installer by Bitnami. It seems Django couldn't find the media files. Fixed it by creating a /static/admin/media directory inside the polls app directory and placing the contents of /django/contrib/admin/media there.