Newbie: django admin

Hi all,

Newbie question: I am using bitnami django stack to teach myself django. I am working through the django tutorial at http://djangoproject.com (Polls/Choices). My problem is in part 2 of the django tutorial where we setup the admin interface.

The good news is that I can see the Poll/Choice data. I can log into admin and see the Poll/Choice data.

The bad news is that the page is text only. It looks like hell compared to the images in the tutorial. It is almost as if there is a css file and images missing.

Since apache the on bitnami is more complicated than what the django tutorial uses, I have no idea where the static files belong to properly fix this. Where should I put a css file to fix this admin interface? Do these belong under my project? Or somewhere in the bitnami stack?

Please advise.

Thanks!

Hi,

BitNami Django Stack configures Apache with mod_wgsi. I hope this helps you http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/stat…

I read the article you linked to, but I’m a little confused what the problem/solution is.

Thanks

It is a performance improvement. Copied from the Django docs:

“Django developers mostly concern themselves with the dynamic parts of web applications – the views and templates that render anew for each request. But web applications have other parts: the static files (images, CSS, Javascript, etc.) that are needed to render a complete web page.

For small projects, this isn’t a big deal, because you can just keep the static files somewhere your web server can find it. However, in bigger projects – especially those comprised of multiple apps – dealing with the multiple sets of static files provided by each application starts to get tricky."

I have had the same problem with deployment OSQA application on top of DjangoStack appliance.
The admin interface media files (CSS/JS/imaged) are located at the following path on VA /opt/bitnami/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/
With the default OSQA contribution CSS/JS/image files are expected at the path /admin_media/ like "/admin_media/css/base.css* etc
So that my issue was resolved with adding following Apache rule to the config file /opt/bitnami/apps/django/django.conf
—
Alias /admin_media/ /opt/bitnami/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/

<Directory /opt/bitnami/apps/django/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all

—

Take a look at HTML what generated by your Django project/application and find the virtual path where it expected to find CSS files and write an according rule to the django.conf file.

Thanks for sharing this.