Why is appearance of admin page so different between development and deployment servers?

[talex]

While using the Django development server, I like the appearance of the admin site from django.contrib.  After deploying the application on a remote Apache server however, the appearance of admin is very different and I do not like it.  The css files in

/usr/local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/css

are identical. 

How can I make the deployed version of admin look like the development server version?

Thanks.

[Vijay Khemlani]

They should look exactly the same

are all the static files (CSS / JS) being loaded correctly in production?

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[Ishaan Bahal]

Take a look at your production server log, you may find that your static files aren't actually being served by your production server. This also happens when you set debug=False in settings.py. Visit https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/howto/static-files/deployment/  to setup static files properly.

[Anderson Resende]

Em production you need to run the command: python manage.py collectstatic and you need configure your production serve like "apache" to read the 'static' folder in you root project.

[talex]

All,

Thank you.  I had negeleted to enable file serving on Apache for
../python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin

I added the stanza:

Alias /static/admin  ../python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin
 <Directory          ../python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin>
      Require all granted
 </Directory>

to Apaches's httpd.conf, and now the correct css files are found.

Thanks again.

[talex]

On second thought maybe using
/python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin
directly is not the best practice. 

I tried using  collectstatic, but then the admin could not find it.
Please comment.

[Mike Dewhirst]

On 23/03/2015 9:54 AM, talex wrote:
> On second thought maybe using
> /python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin
> directly is not the best practice.
>
> I tried using collectstatic, but then the admin could not find it.
> Please comment.

Here is a collectstatic incantation which works for me ...

/usr/bin/python /var/www/ssds/manage.py collectstatic
--settings=ssds.settings.staging --noinput

It properly copies admin static files like this excerpt from my buildbot
stdio ...

<snip>

Copying
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/img/icon_searchbox.png'

<snip>

Copying
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/css/base.css'
Copying
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/css/dashboard.css'

<snip>

Copying
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/js/SelectBox.js'
Copying
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/js/prepopulate.min.js'

<snip>

Copying
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/DateTimeShortcuts.js'
Copying
'/usr/local/lib/python2.7/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookups.js'

>
> On Sunday, March 22, 2015 at 3:33:21 PM UTC-7, talex wrote:
>
> All,
>
> Thank you. I had negeleted to enable file serving on Apache for
> ../python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin
>
> I added the stanza:
>
> Alias /static/admin
> ../python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin
> <Directory
> ../python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin>
> Require all granted
> </Directory>
>
> to Apaches's httpd.conf, and now the correct css files are found.
>
> Thanks again.
>
>
>
>
>
> On Saturday, March 21, 2015 at 4:27:13 PM UTC-7, talex wrote:
>
> While using the Django development server, I like the appearance
> of the admin site from django.contrib. After deploying the
> application on a remote Apache server however, the appearance of
> admin is very different and I do not like it. The css files in
>
> /usr/local/lib/python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin/css
>
> are identical.
>
> How can I make the deployed version of admin look like the
> development server version?
>
> Thanks.
>
>

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[talex]

I apologize for the confusion, but I have ended up following Andreson's advise and used "python manage.py collectstatic"
to generate a directory that I uploaded to my Apache server.  That captured all the files needed for admin, and after I got my httpd.conf file right, it worked correctly.

I no longer use ../python3.3/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/static/admin directly.