Serving admin css for django 1.5 using apache - django

Question

I am moving a application built on Django 1.5 to the development server, running apache, for the first time. I have it mostly running properly, but I am having issues with the CSS serving. I can either get the site's CSS working but not the admin's css or have the admin's css working but not the site's css.
I followed the documentation's and used the collectstatic command to get all the static assets into the STATIC_ROOT folder.
This is my relevant data from my settings file
STATIC_ROOT = '/var/www/projectmanagement/django/static/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATICFILES_DIRS = (
'/var/www/projectmanagement/django/projectmanagement/projects/static',
)
This is the relevant data from httpd.conf
Alias /static/admin/ /var/www/projectmanagement/django/static/admin/
Alias /static /var/www/projectmanagement/django/static/
<Directory /var/www/projectmanagement/django/static/>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>
WSGIScriptAlias / /var/www/projectmanagement/django/projectmanagement/django.wsgi
<Directory /usr/local/wsgi/scripts>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>
and from my vhost.conf
NameVirtualHost *:80
<VirtualHost *:80>
ServerAdmin webmaster#pmt.com
ServerName pmt.com
ServerAlias www.pmt.com
DocumentRoot /var/www/projectmanagement/html/
ErrorLog /var/www/projectmanagement/logs/error.log
CustomLog /var/www/projectmanagement/logs/access.log combined
WSGIScriptAlias /projectmanagement /var/www/projectmanagement/django/projectmanagement/django.wsgi
<Directory "/var/www/projectmanagement/html">
php_admin_value open_basedir "/var/www/projectmanagement/html/:/tmp/:/var/www/projectmanagement /django/projectmanagement/"
php_admin_value include_path "/var/www/projectmanagement/html/:/tmp/:/var/www/projectmanagement /django/projectmanagement/"
</Directory>
</VirtualHost>
When I add the line
AliasMatch /([^/]*\.css) /var/www/projectmanagement/django/static/admin/css/$1
to before the first alias in my httpd.conf file, I get the admin css to work but not the site's css. If it's gone then the site's css works but not the admin's. This has me fairly stumped.

Answer 1

Adding that alias will capture all .css requests, but only looks capable of serving the admin css. Removing it means the css requests will reach your WSGIScriptAlias, and I presume you've got DEBUG = True... so django will be serving your static media for you.
I don't know why django's built in static server isn't working for your admin css - have you set up STATICFILES_FINDERS?
Anyway your alias really should be something like this, so it can serve all of your static files:
AliasMatch /static/ /var/www/projectmanagement/django/static/