Django Admin CSS missing

Question

I\'ve been messing around with the new collectstatic command and have got it working for my normal pages. That is to say, I am able to load my css at this locat

Answer 1

In Django 1.4 ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is deprecated. Here are the steps I followed to catch up with these somewhat recent Django changes:

1. in settings.py, add django.contrib.staticfiles to INSTALLED_APPS

2. in settings.py define STATIC_URL — the staticfiles app won't run without it. While using runserver they'll get handled magically, but when you deploy, this needs to be a location where those resources can be fetched by a browser.

I think that's all there was to it.