James,
Thank you for your replies.
> settings.MEDIA_URL contains info on this; if you're worried about that
> use it to build up the links (e.g., write a templatetag that pulls it
> in, or a context processor that puts it in the template context.
I had thought of doing this, but after not seeing it in anyone elses
code, I wasnt sure if:
a) it was the "right thing to do". b) how to do it properly.
> It's not that "media" and "structure" are separated, it's that with
> Apache/mod_python it's better for performance reasons to use a
> separate web server for media files, stylesheets and JavaScript unless
> those files are being constructed by Django; why incur the overhead of
> a process with Django and your app in memory just to read a file off
> disk and send it down the pipe?
> ......
> Of course, with other server arrangements this is less of a problem;
> my personal blog, for example, runs under lighttpd/FastCGI, so the
> same lighttpd instance serves all requests and has rewrites in place
> to ensure that the FastCGI listeners get any requests which require
> Django.
I definitely agree with you here. Is the same thing possible with
mod_python and "SetHandler None" in the httpd.conf?
I also forgot to mention that lately I have been thinking, and would
appreciate your and other's opinions/thoughts/flames, so here goes:
* There are 2 kinds of media; content media and presentation media.
E.g.
stylesheets, icons, backgrounds, etc. == presentation media.
photos, videos, mp3's, pdfs, etc. == content media
* Certainly it is no problem to have the content media served
separately as it is not at all coupled to the application.
* But presentation media on the other hand, I see it as an integral
part of an application (templates also) and whilst I agree with it not
being served by django / mod_python / whatever, I dont see the sense in
it being anywhere else but inside the applications folder.
I.e.
./MyDjangoProject/
./MyDjangoApp/
./templates/
./css/
./js/
./img/
(remember: im not saying to put content in here, just elements that are
required for the app to function the way it was designed)
What do you guys think?
Cheers,
ChrisW
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