Wrong apache configuration for openstack-dashboard

[James Pic]

Openstack-dashboard configuration sets STATIC_ROOT to /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/static and STATIC_URL to /static. This means that the Apache configuration should use /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/static and for url /static. You can check the setting value with manage.py shell:

$ /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/manage.py shell
Python 2.7.3 (default, Feb 27 2014, 19:58:35)
[GCC 4.6.3] on linux2
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
(InteractiveConsole)
>>> from django.conf import settings; settings.STATIC_ROOT; settings.STATIC_URL
'/usr/share/openstack-dashboard/static'
'/static/'
>>>

But /etc/apache2/conf.d/openstack-dashboard.conf uses /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/static/ as root for url /static:

Alias /static /usr/share/openstack-dashboard/openstack_dashboard/static/

As a result, Apache won't serve the static files directory managed by django (ie. with command manage.py collectstatic). (That static files directory managed by django can be used by rm -rf'ing the static root manually before running collectstatic to avoid problems caused by circular symlinks described in #1326734).

[Matthias Runge (mrunge)]

This is something, I heard on the past OpenStack Summit a few times.