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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.

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  1. Chosen as BEST ANSWER

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

    1. Make sure your settings.py file contains these lines:
    STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, "static")
    STATIC_URL = "/static/"
    
    1. run python manage.py collectstatic

    2. 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)
    
    1. 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.


  2. 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!

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

    STATICFILES_DIRS = [
        BASE_DIR / 'static',
        BASE_DIR / 'static/admin',
    ]
    
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  4. install whitenoise and that’s it !

    1. pip install whitenoise

    2. settings.py :

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