I also recommend going through the deploy checklist. I ran into the same problem and then other problems after that because I didn’t follow this.
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/deployment/checklist/ Sent from my mobile device > On May 10, 2018, at 10:53 PM, Andréas Kühne <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Hi, > > That is the way it should be if you look in the documentation: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/ > > Serving the files > > In addition to these configuration steps, you’ll also need to actually serve > the static files. > > During development, if you use django.contrib.staticfiles, this will be done > automatically by runserver when DEBUG is set to True (see > django.contrib.staticfiles.views.serve()). > > This method is grossly inefficient and probably insecure, so it is unsuitable > for production. > > See Deploying static files for proper strategies to serve static files in > production environments. > > So it is exactly like gunicorn - because you need to serve your static files > from a webbserver instead of from django itself. > > That's why it is failing. > > What you could do (although I don't recommend it) - it to manually add the > static files serving to your urls.py file. See: > https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/howto/static-files/#serving-static-files-during-development > > This should be fine for a developer environment - but nothing else. > > Regards, > > Andréas > > 2018-05-11 3:09 GMT+02:00 Gerald Brown <[email protected]>: >> On my admin site if I have Debug set to true (I have read that for >> production this is a no-no) everything looks fine. When I change it to >> FALSE all of the styling goes away as if it is being run using gunicorn. >> >> Has anyone observed this? If so have you found a correction? >> >> Thanks. >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/2fb3aff8-40ec-464e-81e1-766cf08db433%40googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAK4qSCckZWh8hYJ6HQX-RvOAssSDmP4WCSFbh%2BGcty38GHay%2BQ%40mail.gmail.com. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/5958579F-09A0-414D-8A21-E4690829545F%40gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.

