why my django admin site does not have the css style

Question

I make a Django admin site using Django development version

But it does not have a CSS style :

Answer 1

In addition to many of the other answers being useful, I had a problem that hasn't yet been noted. After upgrading from Django 1.3 to 1.6, my static files directory had a broken symbolic link to the django admin static files.

My settings.py was configured with:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    '/var/www/static/my-dev',
)

According to this answer,

Django will now expect to find the admin static files under the URL /admin/.

I had a symbolic link /var/www/static/my-dev/admin which was set to:

admin -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/

That location no longer exists in django 1.6, so I updated the link to:

admin -> /usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/

And now my admin site is working properly.