Django admin site not showing CSS style

Question

My Django admin website (it\'s completely default, not customized) is not showing the expected CSS.

It looks like this:

Answer 1

Your Apache configuration requires that all static content (CSS, JS, images etc) should be in the mysite/static directory. You should collect your static content from apps into the mysite/static directory first:

cd /home/ubuntu/cs462/mysite
python manage.py collectstatic

Update: If you did not specify a location for static content, you should add the following lines to your settings.py:

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