Can't get Apache to serve django admin static files

Question

I'm trying to deploy Django to apache but can't get it to serve my static admin files. It seems to be looking for them under /var/www/static and I can't seem to be able to change that.

The admin site seem to be working except for styling. I get a title and a log in form. My django app is working too. It's the static files for the admin that aren't served.

Using Django 1.4.1.

The files are under /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static and linked to from /home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/static/admin.

The apache error log says this

[Sun Sep 30 10:57:20 2012] [error] [client 192.168.1.10] File does not exist: /var/www/home, referer: http://dathui.example.com/vaccapp/admin/
[Sun Sep 30 10:57:20 2012] [error] [client 192.168.1.10] File does not exist: /var/www/home, referer: http://dathui.example.com/vaccapp/admin/

But I'm not sure how to change it.

In my django site config I have

<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin [email protected]

    ServerRoot "/home/dutt/vaccapp"
    DocumentRoot "/home/dutt/vaccapp"
<Directory />
    Options FollowSymLinks
    AllowOverride None
</Directory>
<Directory /home/dutt/vaccapp/>
    Options Indexes FollowSymLinks MultiViews
    AllowOverride None
    Order allow,deny
    allow from all
</Directory>

Alias /static/ "/home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/static/"
<Directory "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static">
    Order allow,deny
    Options Indexes
    Allow from all
    IndexOptions FancyIndexing
</Directory>

ServerRoot is not set in apache2.conf.

From my settings.py

STATIC_ROOT = '/home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

Nothing added to STATICFILES_DIRS.

This is added to my apache2.conf

WSGIScriptAlias /vaccapp /home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/wsgi.py
WSGIPythonPath /home/dutt/vaccapp

<Directory /home/dutt/vaccapp>
<Files wsgi.py>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Files>
</Directory>

Answer 1

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is set by default to /static/admin/ # Deprecated in Django 1.4 (now using STATIC_URL + 'admin/'. The result is the same.

Here's the fixes to the apache config:

Alias /static/admin "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static"
Alias /static "/home/dutt/vaccapp/backend/static"
<Directory "/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static">
    Order allow,deny
    Options Indexes
    Allow from all
    IndexOptions FancyIndexing
</Directory>

And the WsgiScriptAlias had to be moved from the main apache config into the VirtualHost.

After a long discussion we found the problem was that Django did not install the admin static properly ... they were symlinked to eachother (very weird). A Django reinstall fixed it and it worked fine now.