Django Admin CSS files not found

[paulfhan]

Hi, as a new developer I have been having problems deploying my django/python application to johnny.  After several attempts, I now have the Hello World screen working, and I have access to /admin as well.  However I cannot seem to be able to get the admin functions to access their CSS and other static files.

site is http://www.hannaford.id.au/admin/

and output is 

Django administration

Welcome, Paul. View site / Change password / Log out

Site administration

Authentication and Authorization Groups Add Change Users Add Change

Recent actions My actions

• PaulH
  User
• admin
  Group

So clearly I am logged in, but my attempts to follow advice in the forums, and elsewhere has not worked.

Here is the tail end of my settings.py file..

# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)

# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.1/howto/static-files/

STATIC_URL = 'hello/static/'

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

STATICFILES_DIRS = [

    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "hello/static/"),

    '/home/paulfhan/public_html/hello/static/',

    'c:/Users/Paul/Desktop/Projects/hello/hello/static/',

]

and here is my dispatch.wsg file

import os, sys

 

# edit your username below

sys.path.append("/home/paulfhan/public_html")

 

from django.core.wsgi import get_wsgi_application

 

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

 

application = get_wsgi_application()

 

and my .htaccess file

RewriteEngine On

RewriteBase /

RewriteRule ^(media/.*)$ - [L]

RewriteRule ^(admin_media/.*)$ - [L]

RewriteRule ^(hello/dispatch\.wsgi/.*)$ - [L]

RewriteRule ^(.*)$ hello/dispatch.wsgi/$1 [QSA,PT,L]

RewriteRule ^(hello/static/.*)$ - [L]

.  the directory tree is

hello

│   └───hello

│       ├───static

│       │   └───hello

│       │       ├───admin

│       │       │   ├───css

│       │       │   │   └───vendor

│       │       │   │       └───select2

│       │       │   ├───fonts

│       │       │   ├───img

│       │       │   │   └───gis

│       │       │   └───js

│       │       │       ├───admin

│       │       │       └───vendor

│       │       │           ├───jquery

│       │       │           ├───select2

│       │       │           │   └───i18n

│       │       │           └───xregexp

│       │       ├───css

│       │       └───images

│       └───__pycache__

 

I would be grateful for help with this.

 

[Krydos]

You need to make an exception in the .htaccess so your .css files are not handled by dispatch.wsgi. You can do this by duplicating the media line and changing the directory to static. You could also host your .css files in the media directory since they already have an exception in .htaccess.