django admin broken in development mode

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I am a newbie in django (not in programming though) and following the w3school tutorials. When running the django admin at 127.0.0.1:8000/admin/ and in development mode, I end up with a layout problem which seems to be related to how the django css files are accessed.

I have a clean and new django install.

I have googled the problem and all that I have found are posts solving the same problem in production mode (not in development mode) or posts dated more than 10 years.

Does anyone understand what is going on and how to fix the problem?

check if STATIC_URL in root_project/settings.py is set correctly if so can you share your settings file and your django version — MedAmineMahmoud, Aug 16 '23 at 09:26
I would check if maybe `DEBUG=False` in settings.py, as per what it says [here](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/5836674/why-does-debug-false-setting-make-my-django-static-files-access-fail) — Martin, Aug 16 '23 at 12:49

arennuit · Accepted Answer · 2023-08-18T09:22:00.443

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As pointed by @Martin in the comments, this is all related to DEBUG being set to FALSE in the setting.py file. This solves the problem in development.

This is not a clean and definitive solution though, especially for production were you should specify your ALLOWED_HOSTS and install a 3rd party lib to handle the static files, a common choice being WhiteNoise but there are many others.

edited Aug 18 '23 at 09:22

answered Aug 18 '23 at 09:09

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