Django Rest Framework without styles or scripts

I imagine that you will have solved the problem, starting from the time that the question has. but to leave some answer for future consultations. You have an error in the settings of the project.

When you declare BASE_DIR you get the root path of the project, in your case the value of the variable must be:

'BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(os.path.abspath(__file__)))'

What produces the following:

 BASE_DIR = '/home/django/django_project/'

Then in the settings we must create routes using BASE_DIR and not like you have done with the string:

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

Must be done:

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

Then in:

STATICFILES_DIRS = (
    os.path.join(BASE_DIR, '/home/django/django_project/'),
)

You are telling Django to concatenate BASE_DIR + BASE_DIR what it produces:

'/ home / django / django_project / home / django / django_project /'

Path that surely does not exist in the system.

What django does with the collectstatic is to search in these directories that we add in STATICFILES_DIRS and copy them to STATIC_ROOT including by default all the 'static' folders of the applications listed in INSTALLED_APPS. example: django.contrib.admin is installed on site-packages: PYTHONPATH + / site-packages / django / contrib / admin / and within that folder exists 'static / admin /'

Collect static will copy everything in the 'static' directory to STATIC_ROOT.

Having this clear, then we must verify that all resources are present within the STATIC_ROOT.

and when serving the project with apache, nginx or any other HTTP server we must indicate that all the requests made to myomominio.com/static serve them directly from the STATIC_ROOT folder and grant the permissions so that it can access the directory:

Apache example:

Alias /static /home/django/django_project/static/

<Directory /home/django/django_project/static/>
   Require all granted
</Directory>

Example Nginx:

location /static {
    alias /home/django/django_project/static/; 
}

and to finish you must make sure that the STATIC_ROOT folder has read permissions for all users.

chmod -R +r  /home/django/django_project/static/

With this we will have guaranteed that all static resources are available.

And keep in mind, always in our apps, place the statics inside static / app_name / in order to prevent our files from writing those of others: example if you put /home/django/django_project/app_name/static/admin/main.css and django.contrib.admin contains main.css, your main.css file will replace the admin file and affect the operation of admin.

Since django collects the files in the same order that the apps are listed in settings INSTALLED_APPS and admin will be before app_name.

You must run the command so that django extracts the static from all the packages.

python manage.py collectstatic