Django Static File Hosting an Apache

Question

I'm trying to move a Django site I have been working on out of the dev server stage and into a real hosting environment. For the time being, I'm just hosting on my personal machine. I already have Apache and mod-wsgi installed, but I'm having issues getting static files up. I'm pretty sure it has to do with Apache. Here is my config file for the site:

<VirtualHost *:80>

    ServerName localhost
    ServerAlias daifotis.dyndns.org
    ServerAdmin [email protected]

    DocumentRoot /home/daifotis/code/

    Alias /media/ /home/daifotis/code/feris/sitestatic
    Alias /static/ /home/daifotis/code/feris/sitestatic
    #AliasMatch ^/([^/]*\.css) /home/daifotis/code/feris/sitestatic/$1

    <Directory /home/daifotis/code/feris/sitestatic>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    <Directory /home/daifotis/code/feris>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    <Directory /home/daifotis/code/feris/jobsite>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

    WSGIDaemonProcess feris processes=2 threads=15 display-name=%{GROUP}
    WSGIProcessGroup feris

    WSGIScriptAlias / /home/daifotis/code/feris/apache/django.wsgi

    <Directory /home/daifotis/code/feris/apache>
        Order allow,deny
        Allow from all
    </Directory>

</VirtualHost>

I'm trying to host the files from the directory I alias with static. When I try to load the site, all the content comes up but no css. Also, when I hit my url www.server.com/static/, the page displays with the proper content of the directory. What I don't understand though, is why if I click on a link to view a file, it says that URL does not exist. I've been stuck on this for awhile so any help would be much appreciated.

Answer 1

Figured it out. I had an apache config error on this line:

Alias /static/ /home/daifotis/code/feris/sitestatic

I should have written static without the trailing slash. With the trailing slash Apache will not expand the URL path.

Alias /static /home/daifotis/code/feris/sitestatic