You can achieve this without django at all. By defining rewrite rules on your web server. But why don't you make your own view/template on the url you want that will play the desired video? You can use the HTML file generated by camtasia for a reference on how to write the template.
On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Margie Roginski <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I am trying to serve up an mp4 video from my django app. I've > generated the video > using a tool called Camtasia, and it creates a set of files for me > that all go in a single > directory. I've put these down in my site_media directory with a > directory structure like this: > > site_media/img/help/overview_video/overview_video.html > overview_video.mp4 > overview_video_controller.swf > swfobject.js > exprsesInstall.swf > > If I reference overview_video.html like this, it works just fine: > > http://mysite.com/site_media/img/help/overview_video/overview_video.html > > But I don't want the user to see site_media in their url. Instead I'd > like them to go > to a nicer looking url, like this: > > http://mysite.com/taskmanager/help/overview_video > > So I'm trying to figure out what I put in my taskmanager app urls.py > in order to make it > handle the nicer url and then redirect to site_media/img/help/ > overview_video/overview_video.html. > > I think I should be able to do something like this: > > > url(r'^help/overview_video$', direct_to_template, > {"template": "[reference_to_site_media]/img/help/ > overview_video/overview_video.html"}) > > But I can't figure out what to put in for [reference_to_site_media]. > Could someone give me a hand? > > Thanks. > > Margie > > > > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
