django media path problem

I am having some problems in figuring out the media path problem in django. In the settings开发者_Go百科.py file, I have ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/admin/'. So certain css and js files like forms.css,RelatedObjectLookup.js files are having the path like this

/media/admin/js/admin/RelatedObjectLookup.js and /media/admin/css/forms.css.

There is not folder in my project like /media/admin. However when I run the server using manage.py script and browse the page, the above css and js files are being loaded. I can see that the files forms.css and RelatedObjectLookup.js are in the django itself. However, I am confused about the path in the django itself. It is something like this

/usr/local/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/js/calendar.js

So, I am confused, how are the files being fetched. In the server log I can see the GET request for other files but not for these files(forms.css and RelatedObjectLookup.js)

I have the following in myserver request log after running manage.py.

[23/Aug/2011 02:20:36] "GET /media/js/DateTimeShortcuts.js HTTP/1.1" 304 0
[23/Aug/2011 02:20:36] "GET /media/js/custom/new_appointment_new.js HTTP/1.1" 304 0
[23/Aug/2011 02:20:36] "GET /media/js/fancybox/jquery.mousewheel-3.0.4.pack.js HTTP/1.1" 304 0
[23/Aug/2011 02:20:36] "GET /media/js/fancybox/jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.pack.js HTTP/1.1" 304 0
[23/Aug/2011 02:20:36] "GET /media/js/fancybox/jquery.fancybox-1.3.4.css HTTP/1.1" 304 0

As you can there is no request for the forms.css and RelatedObjectLookup.js files.

Any suggestions?

Have a look at the AdminMediaHandler that is used by the runserver command. As you can see, the AdminMediaHandler doesn't log anything.

The ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is an URL path. If you are running the server with runserver, Django's server takes care of resolving requests to http://localhost/media/admin/whatever.js and serving up the admin's static files. It doesn't print GET requests for those files to the console.

Howewver, if you're not running with runserver, then you have to make sure that the path that ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX specifies does actually serve up the static files for the admin. For instance, in one of our sites, our STATIC_URL is http://static.oursite.com/ and our STATIC_ROOT is /srv/django-static/oursite/. The ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX is set to http://static.oursite.com/admin/. When we run python manage.py collecstatic, it takes all the static files and puts them in the STATIC_ROOT. It also makes a folder called admin in the STATIC_ROOT and puts all the admin's files there. A different server is responsible for serving stuff on http://static.oursite.com/ and it simply serves up the STATIC_ROOT folder, which also has the admin folder in it. That way, the normal static files get resolved, as well as those for the admin.