diff --git a/core/settings.py b/core/settings.py
index 527e3a2..19e6ec9 100644
--- a/core/settings.py
+++ b/core/settings.py
@@ -25,8 +25,12 @@ INSTALLED_APPS = [
 
 ROOT_URLCONF = 'core.urls'
 
+#  Why WhiteNoise failed: WhiteNoiseMiddleware was at the bottom of MIDDLEWARE (position 8). WhiteNoise requires being right after SecurityMiddleware (position 2) so
+#   it can intercept /static/* requests before other middleware processes them. When it was last, the requests were falling through to Django URL routing, which
+#   returned HTML 404 pages.
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.middleware.security.SecurityMiddleware',
+    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
     'core.middleware.CustomLocaleMiddleware',  # 替换原来的 LocaleMiddleware
     'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
@@ -34,7 +38,6 @@ MIDDLEWARE = [
     'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
     'django.contrib.messages.middleware.MessageMiddleware',
     'django.middleware.clickjacking.XFrameOptionsMiddleware',
-    'whitenoise.middleware.WhiteNoiseMiddleware',
 ]
 
 TEMPLATES = [
diff --git a/data/db.sqlite3 b/data/db.sqlite3
index 95be530..36db6c0 100644
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