title: Apache not serving django admin static files
body: <p>Let me thanks you guys at the Stack Overflow community for helping me with various Django and Apache (with mod_wsgi) errors. I've asked about 5 related questions so far and now I'm getting closer and closer to getting my content out on a production site!</p>
  
  <p>So I know there are many similar questions about this and I have read a <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1179453/django-and-serving-static-files">bunch</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3043868/problem-with-django-styling">of</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6402185/serving-static-files-while-running-djangomod-wsgi-on-apache-2-2">questions</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3271731/djangos-admin-pages-are-missing-their-typical-formatting-style-have-i-set-it-u">about</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6014663/django-static-file-not-found">serving</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6073916/problems-linking-to-static-files-in-django-1-3">static</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5396552/problem-applying-css-in-django-with-static-files-app">media</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6409920/django-static-files-from-app-directories">files</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1833675/django-admin-has-no-style">on</a> <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5687136/static-media-fails-to-load-in-django">Django</a>.</p>
  
  <p>I read about <code>STATIC_URL</code>, <code>STATIC_ROOT</code>, the (soon to be obsolete) <code>ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX</code>, and setting a <code>Alias /media/ ...</code> in the Apache configuration. I tried to test out each solution one by one, but I couldn't get anything working.</p>
  
  <p>Here is what my admin site looks like right now</p>
  
  <p><img src="https://i.imgur.com/vBLMQ.png" /></p>
  
  <p>I'm also having a weird case where <strong><em>any</em></strong> subdomain works on my server. For example I was trying to set up my server so that <a href="http://www.satoshi.example.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://www.satoshi.example.com/</a> would allow my normal (non-Django) content, while <a href="http://django.satoshi.example.com/" rel="noreferrer">http://django.satoshi.example.com/</a> would allow my Django content to be served. But currently any subdomain, whether satoshi.example.com or blahblahasdas.satoshi.example.com is serving my Django files (I know because I can go to the <code>/admin</code> page on both site, although they will be in different sessions).</p>
  
  <p>Anyway here are my files on the server which is running <code>CentOS</code> (not sure which version), <code>Apache 2.2.15</code>, <code>Python 2.6.6</code>, <code>django 1.3.1</code>, and <code>mod_wsgi 3.2</code>.</p>
  
  <p>I will post what I think is the most relevant files and configuration below:</p>
  
  <p>Apache throws these errors everytime I restart</p>
  
  <pre><code>[Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in &lt;module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'&gt; ignored
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in &lt;module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'&gt; ignored
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in &lt;module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'&gt; ignored
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in &lt;module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'&gt; ignored
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in &lt;module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'&gt; ignored
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in &lt;module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'&gt; ignored
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in &lt;module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'&gt; ignored
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in &lt;module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'&gt; ignored
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [notice] SIGHUP received.  Attempting to restart
  [Wed Feb 29 00:45:36 2012] [error] Exception KeyError: KeyError(140249420548064,) in &lt;module 'threading' from '/usr/lib64/python2.6/threading.pyc'&gt; ignored
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [notice] Digest: generating secret for digest authentication ...
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [notice] Digest: done
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [warn] mod_wsgi: Compiled for Python/2.6.2.
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [warn] mod_wsgi: Runtime using Python/2.6.6.
  [Wed Feb 29 01:45:36 2012] [notice] Apache/2.2.15 (Unix) mod_auth_pgsql/2.0.3 PHP/5.3.3 mod_ssl/2.2.15 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips mod_wsgi/3.2 Python/2.6.6 mod_perl/2.0.4 Perl/v5.10.1 configured -- resuming normal operations
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is <code>/var/www/html/mysite/apache/apache_django_wsgi.conf</code> which gets loaded into my <code>httpd.conf</code> with the option <code>NameVirtualHost *:80</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;VirtualHost *:80&gt;
      ServerName django.satoshi.example.com
      ErrorLog "/var/log/httpd/django_error_log"
  
      WSGIDaemonProcess django
      WSGIProcessGroup django
  
      Alias /media/ "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media"
      &lt;Directory "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media"&gt;
          Order allow,deny
          Options Indexes
          Allow from all
          IndexOptions FancyIndexing
      &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
      &lt;Directory "/var/www/html/mysite"&gt;
          Order allow,deny
          Options Indexes
          Allow from all
          IndexOptions FancyIndexing
      &lt;/Directory&gt;
  
      WSGIScriptAlias / "/var/www/html/mysite/apache/django.wsgi"
  
      &lt;Directory "/var/www/html/mysite/apache"&gt;
          Order deny,allow
          Allow from all
      &lt;/Directory&gt;
  &lt;/VirtualHost&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Here is <code>/var/www/html/mysite/apache/django.wsgi</code></p>
  
  <pre><code>import os
  import sys
  
  paths = [
      '/var/www/html/mysite',
      '/var/www/html',
      '/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/',
  ]
  
  for path in paths:
      if path not in sys.path:
          sys.path.append(path)
  
  os.environ['DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE'] = 'mysite.settings'
  
  import django.core.handlers.wsgi
  application = django.core.handlers.wsgi.WSGIHandler()
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>And finally here is part of <code>/var/www/html/mysite/settings.py</code></p>
  
  <pre><code># Absolute filesystem path to the directory that will hold user-uploaded files. 
  # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/media/"
  MEDIA_ROOT = ''
  
  # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. Make sure to use a
  # trailing slash.
  # Examples: "http://media.lawrence.com/media/", "http://example.com/media/"
  MEDIA_URL = ''
  
  # Absolute path to the directory static files should be collected to.
  # Don't put anything in this directory yourself; store your static files
  # in apps' "static/" subdirectories and in STATICFILES_DIRS.
  # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/static/"
  PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.normpath(os.path.dirname(__file__))
  STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(PROJECT_ROOT, 'static')
  
  # URL prefix for static files.
  # Example: "http://media.lawrence.com/static/"
  STATIC_URL = '/static/'
  
  # URL prefix for admin static files -- CSS, JavaScript and images.
  # Make sure to use a trailing slash.
  # Examples: "http://foo.com/static/admin/", "/static/admin/".
  ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/static/admin/'
  
  # Additional locations of static files
  STATICFILES_DIRS = ( 
      # Put strings here, like "/home/html/static" or "C:/www/django/static".
      # Always use forward slashes, even on Windows.
      # Don't forget to use absolute paths, not relative paths.
  )
  
  # List of finder classes that know how to find static files in
  # various locations.
  STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 
      'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder',
      'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder',
  #   'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.DefaultStorageFinder',
  )
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Let me know if you guys need any other files. Thanks in advance!</p>