Comments on: Customizing Django's Admin Templates and Media When Using the Built-In Development Web Server

By: Roman

Roman — Thu, 13 May 2010 22:39:21 +0000

Good post. But if you try to change from step2:
ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = ‘http://127.0.0.1:8000/media/admin/‘
to ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = ‘/media/admin/’

you would gived no media. Page on without css, js, images for it way.

I got it but documentation django recomended like: ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = ‘/media/admin/’

Thanks

By: Scot Hacker

Scot Hacker — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 04:09:42 +0000

This is brilliant, thanks so much. The one thing I didn’t like in this solution was that you’re hard-coding a full path in urls.py, which doesn’t work across dev and production environments. To fix this I put this in local_settings.py:

LOCAL_GRAPPELLI_MEDIA = ‘/path/to/grappelli/media’

and then in urls.py:

{‘document_root’: settings.LOCAL_GRAPPELLI_MEDIA}

By: Chris Scott

Chris Scott — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:27:34 +0000

@patrick: it looks like this will be possible in v1.6 of subversion according to this blog post.

By: patrick

patrick — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 17:53:28 +0000

I’ve been rethinking this issue lately. Although I´m no expert with using subversion, isn´t it possible to remove a directory (e.g. /media/) from future svn-updates? That´d ensure that django-updates won´t be broken when using Grappelli … I’ve just checked the subversion online-docs, but unfortunately I didn´t find an answer.

By: phillc

phillc — Thu, 18 Dec 2008 17:16:10 +0000

finally got it to work.

it is important to make it the last (or in my case, second) template directory listed… so that, in your regular template directory, you can override the shortcut/navigation html.

By: Chris Scott

Chris Scott — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:20:23 +0000

@Malcolm: yikes! Thanks for pointing that out. The train has been put back on track

By: Malcolm Tredinnick

Malcolm Tredinnick — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 01:14:43 +0000

Not enough gets written about admin customisations. Nice piece.

There’s been some kind of train-wreck in your URL patterns, though. Somebody’s run through and dropped in some HTML tags (an “em” element) in place of reg-exp strings.

By: Chris Scott

Chris Scott — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:38:09 +0000

@patrick: cool, thanks!

By: patrick

patrick — Fri, 12 Dec 2008 13:19:09 +0000

this is a very good point. we personally use the latest official django-version with grappelli. using an svn checkout probably breaks the grappelli-styles (because of some smaller changes made by wilson recently). nevertheless, I´d definitely prefer a solution where we don´t have to override djangos media- and templates-directory.
I´ll include a link to this article to the grappelli-documentation …