404 Error while serving Django 1.7 static files on Apache

Question

I've been a django developer for years now, yet a small practice project with 1.7 is giving me a great headache when it comes to serving static files.

I've set STATIC_ROOT

STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/mydomain/static'

I've set STATIC_URL

STATIC_URL = '/static/' #as default

I'm not using STATICFILES_DIRS since I have one app called 'pages' and it's in INSTALLED_APPS. On localhost the static files are served correctly

I'm using Ubuntu 14.4 and Apache/2.4.7

My apache conf is

<VirtualHost *:80>
    ServerName mydomain.net #I own the domain and pointed it correctly in GoDaddy
    ServerAlias www.mydomain.net

    Alias /static/ /var/www/mydomain/static

    <Directory /var/www/mydomain/static>
        Require all granted
    </Directory>

    WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/mydomain/mydomain/wsgi.py

    <Directory /var/www/mydomain/mydomain>
        <Files wsgi.py>
           Require all granted
        </Files>
    </Directory>

    WSGIDaemonProcess mydomain.net python-path=/var/www/mydomain:/var/www/mydomain/venv/lib/python2.7/site-packages
    WSGIProcessGroup mydomain.net
</VirtualHost>

I've run collectstatic and confirmed all static files are in /var/www/mydomain/static/*.

The site loads, but I get a 404 on all css and js files.

All debugging efforts have failed. I've removed the STATIC_ROOT dir to expect a 403, but still getting a 404. I've chown'd all files/folder to root for testing; nothing. I created a deploy user and chown'd all files/folders to it; nothing. I've chown'd all files/folders to www-data; nothing!!

Is there a new config in Apache 2.4+ that's throwing me off?

are you getting a 404 from apache or django? can you post a snippet of your apache /var/log/error.log (or whatever) for when you get a 404. Lastly, are you running on something using SELinux? — Foon
Maybe show a curl call of your site? Maybe try /static instead of /static/? — sjas

AWais ALi AWais ALi · Accepted Answer · 2015-01-02T22:52:08

What you can do is check your /var/www/mydomain path and look for the folder. I think its not there yet. If not then copy your folder to this place so that apache can serve it. That will be worth looking

404 Error while serving Django 1.7 static files on Apache

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