django admin site showing with out format

Question

I have a django test site and I can see the admin site, but it has different formatting from the tutorial examples.

This is how my admin site looks:

But on the example it looks like this:

What is missing to show the correct formatting?

Answer 1

Looks like your CSS file isn't being loaded. Make sure your django install is set up correctly to server out static files. The CSS file, by default, is in /static/admin/css .

Answer 2

uncomment 'django.contrib.staticfiles' under INSTALLED_APPS from settings.py.