I figured this out. Your advice lead me in the right direction, but I
went ahead and configured my urls.py like this:

# For serving static media files (css, js, images)
if settings.DEBUG:
        urlpatterns += patterns('',
        (r'^content/(.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': os.path.join(settings.PROJECT_PATH, 'content')}),
    )

And set my PROJECT_PATH accordingly in settings.py (/home/me/
project_name). I'm thinking that the (r'^media/(.*)$... url pattern
conflicts with django admin URLs and based on the order of inclusion,
overrides what I had as my pattern for serving static files in my
development environment. Either way, it works now. Thanks Tim!

On May 12, 3:53 am, Tim Chase <django.us...@tim.thechases.com> wrote:
> eculver wrote:
> > I know this one has been covered pretty well, and I'm not a "total"
> > newb todjango, but something alludes me here. Why when I put:
>
> > if settings.DEBUG:
> >    urlpatterns += patterns('',
> >             (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
> > {'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT},
> >    )
>
> > in my urls.py does it fail and output:
>
> > Page not found: /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/django/contrib/admin/
> > media/css/master.css
>
> > Why is it even looking in /var/lib/python-support/python2.6/django/
> > contrib/admin/ if I've configured MEDIA_ROOT in my settings.py to an
> > absolute path to my project's media source... just seems strange? Any
> > ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Had the same problem on a project I was just working on.  I think
> I had to change the settings.ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX to some other
> location because it was superseding my settings.MEDIA_ROOT
>
> -tim
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