django 1.8 cannot load css in development server - django

Question

I have problem to load css for admin site. I just setup django 1.8 and run development server but apparently it cannot load css with 500 error code. I cannot figure out what is the problem.
This is my setting.py
import os
BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))
# Quick-start development settings - unsuitable for production
# See https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/deployment/checklist/
# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = secret_key
# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = True
ALLOWED_HOSTS = []
# Application definition
INSTALLED_APPS = (
'django.contrib.admin',
'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.staticfiles',
)
MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
'django.middleware.csrf.CsrfViewMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.auth.middleware.SessionAuthenticationMiddleware',
'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
)
ROOT_URLCONF = 'rnd.urls'
TEMPLATES = [
{
'BACKEND': 'django.template.backends.django.DjangoTemplates',
'DIRS': [],
'APP_DIRS': True,
'OPTIONS': {
'context_processors': [
'django.template.context_processors.debug',
'django.template.context_processors.request',
'django.contrib.auth.context_processors.auth',
'django.contrib.messages.context_processors.messages',
],
},
},
]
WSGI_APPLICATION = 'rnd.wsgi.application'
# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/ref/settings/#databases
DATABASES = {
'default': {
'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'rnd.sqlite3'),
}
}
# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/topics/i18n/
LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'
USE_I18N = True
USE_L10N = True
USE_TZ = True
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.8/howto/static-files/
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
this is the error that i get:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Python27\lib\wsgiref\handlers.py", line 85, in run
self.result = application(self.environ, self.start_response)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\staticfiles\handlers.py", l
ine 64, in __call__
return super(StaticFilesHandler, self).__call__(environ, start_response)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\core\handlers\wsgi.py", line 189, i
n __call__
response = self.get_response(request)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\staticfiles\handlers.py", l
ine 54, in get_response
return self.serve(request)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\staticfiles\handlers.py", l
ine 47, in serve
return serve(request, self.file_path(request.path), insecure=True)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\contrib\staticfiles\views.py", line
40, in serve
return static.serve(request, path, document_root=document_root, **kwargs)
File "C:\Python27\lib\site-packages\django\views\static.py", line 66, in serve
content_type, encoding = mimetypes.guess_type(fullpath)
File "C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 290, in guess_type
init()
File "C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 351, in init
db.read_windows_registry()
File "C:\Python27\lib\mimetypes.py", line 254, in read_windows_registry
with _winreg.OpenKey(hkcr, subkeyname) as subkey:
TypeError: must be string without null bytes or None, not str
[08/Jul/2015 11:04:29]"GET /static/admin/css/base.css HTTP/1.1" 500 59
This is url.py
from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.contrib import admin
urlpatterns = [
url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
]
The solution:
The root cause for this is because of the corrupted keys in the Windows Registry. I have reinstalled the python 2.7 library and it solved the problem.

Answer 1

The root cause for this is because of the corrupted keys(have empty string/null value) in the Windows Registry. I have reinstalled the python 2.7 library and it solved the problem.