Karen, Thank you. I will give that a shot a little later this afternoon.
The MEDIA_ROOT change really does break the sites CSS though. Not sure why. Was I doing the changes correctly if I were going to be hosting this on an actual server? I'd need to change the MEDIA_ROOT in order to get that to work, right? Andrew On Sep 1, 6:30 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Sep 1, 2009 at 4:18 PM, Ozymandias <kairoscreat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Greetings, > > > I admit to being very confused at the moment. I'm simply wanting to > > change the style sheets on the Admin Site. I'm mostly just wanting to > > change the color scheme. Nothing terribly complicated. I'm using > > Django 1.1 running in the Development Server on a Linux Mint machine. > > The development server has a built-in server for admin media. It does not > use the MEDIA_ROOT setting but rather serves the admin media from the > directory where the source is located (thus I don't understand your > statement below that changing MEDIA_ROOT breaks your admin media...that > shouldn't be). If you want to get the admin media served from some other > location when using the development server, use the --adminmedia option: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/django-admin/#djadminopt---a... > > Karen > > > Here's what I currently have. > > > Directory Structure. > > > /sales_tracking - The root directory for the project. > > /sales_tracking/media/admin/css - The directory that I've copied the > > "base.css" and "dashboard.css" files into. > > /sales_tracking/templates/admin - The directory that I've copied the > > "base.html" and "base-site.html" into. > > > Changes to settings.py > > > MEDIA_ROOT = '/home/andrew/Projects/Holland Sales Tracking/ > > sales_tracking/media/' > > ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/admin/' > > > When I view the source of my Admin page I get the following style > > sheet tags. > > > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/media/admin/css/ > > base.css" /> > > <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/media/admin/css/ > > dashboard.css" /> > > > All of this looks right to me but no changes I make to the CSS files > > actual propagate out to the page. If I change MEDIA_ROOT to leave off > > the initial "/" all the styles go away. I'm missing something here > > but I don't know what. Could someone please explain what is going on > > in the background that I'm not understanding? I'd really appreciate > > it. This doesn't seem like it should be a big, hairy deal but it is > > sure kicking my butt up between my ears. > > > Thanks, > > > Andrew --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
