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

It seems dumb, but I actually had this exact issue and the solution was to set DEBUG=False to DEBUG=True on my local dev environment. When debug is set to False, it thinks it's in a production environment which relies on a place to put static files, such as /var/www/html/static, whereas the debug set to True just uses the local directory.