Django /subdirectory/admin/ redirects to /admin/login/?next=/admin/

Question

I set up a Django server on port 8011, and have a nginx serving it as a subdirectory on port 80.

Static files, good.

Pages, good.

But when I access /subdirectory/admin/, it takes me to: /admin/login/?next=/admin/

Which is of course a 404 error, but if I access /subdirectory/admin/login/?next=/admin/, it works fine.

Any ideas? Do I need to set a variable in the settings.py?

urls.py:

    url(r'^admin/', admin.site.urls),

nginx config:

server {
    listen 80;

    location /sdc {
        proxy_pass http://127.0.0.1:8011/;
    }
}

Not sure if this is a good method, but I am using Django's `FORCE_SCRIPT_NAME` variable now to set the directory. — Gray Adams, Nov 15 '17 at 15:03
Does this also work with serving the static files? I can get the links and admin working, but static files are not served — Strubbl, May 15 '18 at 11:13

score -3 · Answer 1 · answered Nov 15 '17 at 04:33

I believe what is happening is that when django sees you aren't logged in, it redirects you to the url named 'admin:login'. It figures out that url by reversing what it sees in your urls.py, which is this case comes out to be admin/login/ (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.11/ref/contrib/admin/#reversing-admin-urls). This means it doesn't know it is operating within /subdirectory/.

Try add subdirectory in urls.py

url(r'^subdirectory/admin/', admin.site.urls),

Django /subdirectory/admin/ redirects to /admin/login/?next=/admin/

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