Default admin media doesn't display for 'django-admin runserver'

[espen@…]

The default css and java scripts (located in '/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/conf/admin_media/') for the admin site does not work by default when I use 'django-admin.py runserver'.

[Adrian Holovaty]

A few questions:

Which browser are you running? Does the rest of the site work (logging in, etc.)? If you point your browser directly to an admin media file, such as an image, what error do you get?

[espen@…]

I use Firefox 1.0.4, and everything else works, it is just everyting that is in the "media" folder.

If I try for example to open "admin/media/css/base.css" (same with "media/css/base.css") I get

There's been an error:

Traceback (most recent call last):

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/handlers/wsgi.py", line 184, in get_response
    callback, param_dict = resolver.resolve(path)

  File "/usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/django/core/urlresolvers.py", line 85, in resolve
    raise Http404, "Tried all URL patterns but didn't find a match for %r" % app_path

Http404: Tried all URL patterns but didn't find a match for 'admin/media/css/base.css'

[Adrian Holovaty]

Ah, the problem is that your ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is set to "/admin/media", and Django handles everything under "/admin/". Set it to something like "/admin_media/", and it should work. I'll leave this ticket open, though, so we can fix this potential problem in the code -- by displaying a helpful error message or something.

[Espen Grindhaug]

I got it to work now, with apache.

[Vsevolod Novikov]

I've made a simple patch which allows to setup admin media logging easy. It adds optional ADMIN_MEDIA_LOG setting, and developer can see admin media requests if this settings is set to True

[Vsevolod Novikov]

The issue has been reopened for django developers who can apply the patch to the source

[Jannis Leidel]

Please don't reopen tickets that have been closed as WORKSFORME.