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noblerare
noblerare

Reputation: 11873

Permissions error when accessing Django admin page served by Apache

I am new to Django development and this site has been invaluable so far and I'm impressed with how much I've learned. That being said, I am running into a problem and I've been crawling through the related posts on this site yet can't seem to find anything that solves my issue.

Here is what I've tried but no luck.

So I am hoping that one of you might be able to take a look at what I'm doing and point me in the right direction. I am trying to get my Apache web server to serve up the CSS files for Django's admin page. But, when visiting: http://localhost/admin/, I get the error: Forbidden. You don't have permission to access /admin/ on this server.

The CSS/JS for my site is located in mysite/static and the CSS/JS for the admin page is located in the Django installation folder, Django-1.5/django/contrib/admin/static/admin. Here are the relevant bits in my settings.py file:

STATIC_ROOT = '/home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/production_static'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_DIRS = (
    "/home/me/Django-1.5/django/contrib/admin/static/admin",
    "/home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/static",
)

STATICFILES_FINDERS = (
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
    #'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',

)

I've run the python manage.py collectstatic command which pulls all the necessary static files from my two directory locations and places them in a folder called production_static in my project folder.

Here is the production_static folder layout:

$ cd production_static
$ ls
admin css images img js

The admin folder contains all the static files needed for the admin page to display. But for some reason, the css folder contains both my site's CSS as well as the admin CSS. Same with the js folder. The images folder is my site's images and the img folder is the admin site's images. I don't know why the collectstatic command is making two copies of the admin's static files.

Here is Apache's httpd.conf file:

AliasMatch ^/([^/]*\.css) /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/production_static/css/$1
AliasMatch ^/([^/]*\.css) /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/production_static/admin/css/$1

Alias /media/ /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/media/
Alias /static/ /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/production_static/
Alias /admin/ /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/production_static/admin/

<Directory /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/production_static>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

<Directory /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/media>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

WSGIScriptAlias / /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/mysite/wsgi.py
WSGIPythonPath /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite    

<Directory /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/mysite>
<Files wsgi.py>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Files>
</Directory>

I am making sure that I restart the Apache server every time I make changes to the httpd.conf file.

And here is my urls.py file:

from django.conf.urls import patterns, include, url
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
    url(r'^$', 'mysite.views.homepage_view'),
    # other url-view mappings here
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)

My homepage and other pages load fine. The CSS and JS are all wonderful. It's just when I try to access http://localhost/admin/ do I get a permissions error.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2090

Answers (1)

dan-klasson
dan-klasson

Reputation: 14190

Get rid of this alias:

Alias /admin/ /home/me/Desktop/djcode/mysite/production_static/admin/

Upvotes: 1

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