Django-admin page is missing select all checkbox on deploy

Question

I've deployed my Django project on DigitalOcean.com. I've set static folder and run python manage.py collectstatic which worked correctly. The only problem is that I can't see select all checkbox in admin page.

This is in my local Django project:

And this is in deployed project:

I can't figure out where the problem is. Do you know?

I'm attaching settings.py of deployed project:

import os

# Build paths inside the project like this: os.path.join(BASE_DIR, ...)
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/1.9/howto/deployment/checklist/

# SECURITY WARNING: keep the secret key used in production secret!
SECRET_KEY = 'some key'

# SECURITY WARNING: don't run with debug turned on in production!
DEBUG = False

ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['*']


# Application definition

INSTALLED_APPS = [


    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'main_app',
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django_tables2',
    'import_export',
]

MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = [
    'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
    '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',
]

ROOT_URLCONF = 'drevo.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 = 'drevo.wsgi.application'


# Database
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/settings/#databases

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME':'/home/django/drevo/db.sqlite3',
        #'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
    }
}


# Password validation
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/ref/settings/#auth-password-validators

AUTH_PASSWORD_VALIDATORS = [
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.UserAttributeSimilarityValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.MinimumLengthValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.CommonPasswordValidator',
    },
    {
        'NAME': 'django.contrib.auth.password_validation.NumericPasswordValidator',
    },
]
EMAIL_BACKEND = 'django.core.mail.backends.smtp.EmailBackend'
EMAIL_USE_TLS = True
EMAIL_HOST = 'smtp.gmail.com'
EMAIL_PORT = 587
EMAIL_HOST_USER = 'email@gmail.com'
EMAIL_HOST_PASSWORD = 'pwd'

ADMIN_EMAIL = 'email@gmail.com'

# Internationalization
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/topics/i18n/

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

TIME_ZONE = 'UTC'

USE_I18N = True

USE_L10N = True

USE_TZ = True

VARS_MODULE_PATH = 'main_app.global_variables.py'
# Static files (CSS, JavaScript, Images)
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/howto/static-files/

STATIC_ROOT = '/home/django/drevo/static/'
STATIC_URL = '/static/'

just to make sure, you are using the same django version both locally and in production, right? — Jahongir Rahmonov, Aug 27 '16 at 16:49
@JahongirRahmonov Probably yes, I've checked it. It's 1.10.0 — Milano, Aug 27 '16 at 16:51
@JahongirRahmonov I've checked it and I saw 1.10.0 there but settings.py says that: Generated by 'django-admin startproject' using Django 1.9.7. — Milano, Aug 27 '16 at 16:55
I'm trying to install 1.9.7 on the server but it doesn't work since there are differences between versions. — Milano, Aug 27 '16 at 17:00

m4tti · Answer 1 · 2017-04-16T17:32:04.210

I had the same problem and fixed it backing up all data in my static folder, emptying it and executing again:

python manage.py collectstatic

I figured out it was because of static files from a previous app I had installed (django-grappelli). Django was trying to move file needed to the destination /static/ folder, but as there were already the same files created by django-grapelli it just ignored them and doesn't moved them. Example:

Found another file with the destination path 'admin/css/dashboard.css'. It will be ignored since only the first encountered file is collected. If this is not what you want, make sure every static file has a unique path.

Emptying the folder I forced the command to recopy everything bak there and everything worked fine afterwards.

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 15 '17 at 22:23

I just faced the same issue (at least same effects). It turned out to be (I think) a cache issue, either on nginx or on the client browser:

My production server works with Debian jessie, nginx, gunicorn, Django 1.10.2 + SSL.

To test if you have a cache problem, run (if your prod server allows this)

./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8000

(or any other port you can access) on your production server for a short while. And test there if the checkbox is present. If yes, than just restart your server services and force the browser cache refresh a few times (hit shift+click on the refresh arrow on most of the browser I know).

Django-admin page is missing select all checkbox on deploy

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