I am still new to sreving stuff (in fact I know barely anything about it
:)) Then you instruct to have something like this
url(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'myview,func', {
'document_root': MEDIA_ROOT,
}),
and my func have the instructions to the real web servers ?
And another question: Does this applies also to light static files like css
and javascript ?
Thanks a lot
On Thu, Nov 29, 2012 at 1:15 PM, Tom Evans <tevans...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:27 PM, Loai Ghoraba <loai1...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Thanks for the reply, but I am still new to the web technology world, so
> I
> > would like to fully use Django now before , moving to another ways to
> host
> > my files.
> > Actually I am totally new to serving stuff, so if there is some best
> > practice or that my way is totally wrong, please tell me.
> >
> > So in short: is there a way to provide some kind of authentication
> against
> > /static/whatever urls ? Because I want Django to host the file now
> > Also, assuming I found someway to do this, django says that to mark a
> file
> > as downloadable, we can do this
> >
> >
> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/request-response/#telling-the-browser-to-treat-the-response-as-a-file-attachment
> >
> >>>> response = HttpResponse(my_data,
> >>>> content_type='application/vnd.ms-excel')
> >>>> response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment; filename="foo.xls"'
> >
> >
> > Now what is the type of my_data? any file object ?
> >
>
> A string, or any file like object - it's just like any HttpResponse.
>
> You do not want to do this though, using Django to download static
> files is very wasteful. Others have pointed out solutions where you
> use django to authenticate the request, and then instruct your web
> server (eg Apache, nginx) to serve the correct file, which will be an
> order of magnitude more efficient.
>
> Django is never served by itself, there should always be a real web
> server in front of it.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tom
>
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