Ah I solved it (Thanks to the group's help leading me in the right
direction) !
It turns out that no django apps were getting the templates by
default. No templates = no css = ugly site
I'll explain what I did to help any hapless searchers who may have the
same issue (with Webfaction django-trunk 1.11 (IIRC) it seems)
(note: I called my media folder static)
(note: If indeed you are using webfaction, your /PATH/TO/APP will be
something like /home/user/webapps/application/django-project)
First:
ln -s /PATH/TO/DJANGO/contrib/admin/media /PATH/TO/APP/static/admin
ln -s /PATH/TO/DJANGO/contrib/admin/media/templates/admin /PATH/TO/
APP/templates/admin
(you could copy instead of linking these if you want)
Next:
I had to set more things in settings.py
(the end / is important!)
media root = /PATH/TO/APP/static/
media url = http://subdomain.whatever.com/static/
admin_media_prefix = 'http://subdomain.whatever.com/static/admin/'
template_dirs = /PATH/TO/APP/templates
FINALLY : I had to tell apache to serve up static content the way
Webfaction likes it.
(see their docs on serving static content and point the link to /PATH/
TO/APP/static)
Then I had to restart apache
Finally works!
Thanks for the leads!
On Jul 7, 7:57 am, Samuel Harvey kephnosanagen...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 6, 2009 at 9:22 PM, Laggl.e.wilkow...@gmail.com wrote:
I just installed Satchmo per the installation directions.
The store looks as advertised, but the admin area is completely
without style/colors/images. It looks like just basic html thrown on
the page. (nothing at all like the default django admin)
Is this the default behavior , or am I missing something?
Thanks in advance
This is an issue with your Django configuration. First, make sure that
MEDIA_ROOT in settings.py is set to your static media folder. Then, if
you're using a UNIX-like OS:
ln -s /PATH/TO/DJANGO/contrib/admin/media /PATH/TO/MEDIA_ROOT/admin
If you're in Windows, you'll have to dig around some more or wait for
someone else to give you an answer.
Also, it's generally considered a good idea to have a separate
lightweight webserver handling your static media. I'm using nginx and
apache2, but I've heard of people using all sorts of combinations.
Sam
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