Why does my Django admin site not have styles / CSS loading?

Question

I made a Django admin site using Django development version but it isn't being styled:

Answer 1

After setting up your STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL, you may have to run

python manage.py collectstatic 

Answer 2

ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is deprecated now, use STATIC_URL instead. Setting STATIC_URL = '/static/' in settings.py should do the job. Try:

import os.path   import sys  PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.normpath(os.path.dirname(__file__)) 

and then:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static') STATIC_URL = '/static/' 

Works on Django 1.4 pre-alpha SVN-16920.