Recently I deployed a Django powered application but I have some problem with static files. Sometimes (and only sometimes), I get 500 Internal Server Error in getting static files such as css/js/image. Please take look at this images:
First request:
Second:
and last request:
You can see that in three separate requests, I got different result in static files.
Apache Log:
[Wed Oct 10 16:00:08 2012] [error] [client 37.98.23.93] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/utils/decorators.py", line 91, in _wrapped_view, referer: http://mydomain.biz/static/style/main.css
[Wed Oct 10 16:00:08 2012] [error] [client 37.98.23.93] response = view_func(request, *args, **kwargs), referer: http://mydomain.biz/static/style/main.css
[Wed Oct 10 16:00:08 2012] [error] [client 37.98.23.93] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/views/defaults.py", line 32, in server_error, referer: http://mydomain.biz/static/style/main.css
[Wed Oct 10 16:00:08 2012] [error] [client 37.98.23.93] t = loader.get_template(template_name) # You need to create a 500.html template., referer: http://mydomain.biz/static/style/main.css
[Wed Oct 10 16:00:08 2012] [error] [client 37.98.23.93] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 145, in get_template, referer: http://mydomain.biz/static/style/main.css
[Wed Oct 10 16:00:08 2012] [error] [client 37.98.23.93] template, origin = find_template(template_name), referer: http://mydomain.biz/static/style/main.css
[Wed Oct 10 16:00:08 2012] [error] [client 37.98.23.93] File "/usr/lib/python2.6/site-packages/django/template/loader.py", line 138, in find_template, referer: http://mydomain.biz/static/style/main.css
[Wed Oct 10 16:00:08 2012] [error] [client 37.98.23.93] raise TemplateDoesNotExist(name), referer: http://mydomain.biz/static/style/main.css
[Wed Oct 10 16:00:08 2012] [error] [client 37.98.23.93] TemplateDoesNotExist: 500.html, referer: http://mydomain.biz/static/style/main.css
I have Apache 2.* and Django 1.4.1 with Python 2.6 on CentOS 5.
Best Answer
Problem solved but I don't know why. Previously, I used this route for static files:
and after set this custom route, everything is fine: