django: admin site not formatted

Question

I have a mostly entirely plain django project, with no adding of my own media or customization of the admin interface in any way. Running the server with python manage.py runserver results in a nicely-formatted admin interface. Running the server with gunicorn_django does not. Why is this the case, and how can I fix it?

It's definitely an issue of not finding the css files, but where are they stored? I never configured this, and the MEDIA_ROOT setting is ''.

EDIT: I just want to know how django-admin serves the non-existent admin files... and how can I get gunicorn_django to do the same?

Answer 1

If you use contrib.static, you have to execute a collectstatic command to get all the app-specific static files (including admin's own) into the public directory that is served by gunicorn.