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I just switched from 1.2 to trunk (r15175 at this writing) to play with contrib.staticfiles, and now when using the local devserver all my admin media returns a 404. The static media (as managed by the new contrib app) all work as expected, but I'd like to be able to use the admin with the dev server so that I don't have to restart a local apache instance when dev code changes.
Is this known behaviour? I haven't gotten a response in IRC.
edit: Seems related to: Admin media disappear while running django trunk in development mode, but there didn't seem to be an actual answer there.
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django. contrib. staticfiles collects static files from each of your applications (and any other places you specify) into a single location that can easily be served in production.
Static files are meant for javascript/images etc, but media files are for user-uploaded content.
To make Django development server serve static we have to add a URL pattern in sitewide urls.py file. Now visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/python.png again, this time you should be able to see the image. Just as with static files, in the production, you should always use a real web server to serve media files.
I was having the same problem, finally noticed this line in the docs for ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX:
For integration with staticfiles, this should be the same as STATIC_URL followed by 'admin/'.
Doing that fixed it for me.
Edit 2012-03-12: Note that as of Django 1.4, ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX has been deprecated.
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