Django statics returns 404 error in cPanel Passenger

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I used cPanel and deployed a Django application on my server using passenger_wsgi.py. The problem is when I'm trying to access static files (like admin CSS file: static/admin/css/base.css) I'm facing with 404 error. I've already done collectstatic and added PassengerPathInfoFix method to passenger_wsgi.py file but the output log is

Not Found: /home/mysite/public_html/build/static/admin/css/base.css

even though the outputted path exists and I can edit it using vim.

My settings.py:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
STATIC_URL = "/static/"
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'
MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')

Any help would be appreciated.

Does this answer your question? [Django runserver not serving static files in development](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/20398600/django-runserver-not-serving-static-files-in-development) — Ivan Starostin, Jul 14 '22 at 11:41
@IvanStarostin No, I've copied "static" to the base directory of my domain and it works. Thanks for your comment — Gtslix, Jul 14 '22 at 12:44

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 14 '22 at 09:42

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Add this into url.py

from django.conf.urls.static import static

urlpatterns += static(settings.MEDIA_URL, document_root=settings.MEDIA_ROOT)

Hope this help!

answered Jul 14 '22 at 09:42

MVB

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Unfortunately, it doesn't work. – Gtslix Jul 14 '22 at 09:57
@MVB he wants **static**, not media file. – Ivan Starostin Jul 14 '22 at 11:39

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 14 '22 at 10:04

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You can try to change STATIC_URL to STATICFILES_DIRS, this work with me!

STATICFILES_DIRS = [
    BASE_DIR / 'static',
    BASE_DIR / 'static/admin',
]

answered Jul 14 '22 at 10:04

MVB

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Gtslix · Accepted Answer · 2022-07-14T14:54:39.040

Thanks to Ali's answer, For anyone with the same problem, here are the steps I've done. Wish it would be helpful:

Make sure your settings.py file contains these lines:

STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
STATIC_URL = "/static/"

run python manage.py collectstatic
Edit your passenger_wsgi.py and add these lines:

# ...
# Import WSGI of your project

# Project Static File Path
cwd = os.getcwd()
sys.path.append(cwd)
sys.path.append(cwd + '/myapp')
SCRIPT_NAME = os.getcwd()
class PassengerPathInfoFix(object):
    def __init__(self, app):
        self.app = app

    def __call__(self, environ, start_response):
        from urllib.parse import unquote
        environ['SCRIPT_NAME'] = SCRIPT_NAME
        request_uri = unquote(environ['REQUEST_URI'])
        script_name = unquote(environ.get('SCRIPT_NAME', ''))
        offset = request_uri.startswith(script_name) and len(environ['SCRIPT_NAME']) or 0
        environ['PATH_INFO'] = request_uri[offset:].split('?', 1)[0]
        return self.app(environ, start_response)

application = PassengerPathInfoFix(application)

If you deployed your Django project in a subfolder inside public_html and not in the public_html directory (as mine), copy the static folder to public_html or create symbolic link using ln -s public_html/static/ public_html/subfolder/static/ (The point is the static files only load from your domain/subdomain base directory) (maybe there is a better solution but this solved my problem)

So I moved the project to the base directory of my domain and it worked.

score 0 · Answer 4 · edited Oct 24 '22 at 03:27

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install whitenoise and that's it !

pip install whitenoise

settings.py :

MIDDLEWARE = [
    # ...
    "django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware",
    "whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware",
    # ...
]

edited Oct 24 '22 at 03:27

Suraj Rao

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answered Oct 24 '22 at 02:48

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Django statics returns 404 error in cPanel Passenger

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