On Mar 31, 10:37 am, Jack Orenstein <j...@geophile.com> wrote:
> I have my first Django app running, but with very basic html. I'm
> trying to add my first <img> tag and finding it difficult to serve up
> the image file.
>
> I've read this:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-
> files/?from=olddocs, which points out that having django serve static
> content is "inefficient and insecure", and then points to a reference
> for Apache plus mod_python.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) The method outlined above isn't working for me. urls.py says (for
> my foobar application):
>
> (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
> {'document_root': '/Users/jao/django/foobar/media'}),
>
> /Users/jao/django/foobar/media/images has xyz.gif, and my page says:
>
> <img src="/media/images/xyz.gif"/>
>
> But when I load the page, the image doesn't show up. I get a little
> box with a question mark in it.
>
> 2) I'm not using mod_python, I'm using mod_wsgi. Is the procedure
> pretty close to that of mod_python?
If using mod_wsgi you shouldn't be configuring Django to serve the
static files, you should be configuring Apache to serve them. See the
documentation:
http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/IntegrationWithDjango
Graham
> 3) Why exactly is the builtin django method insecure?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jack Orenstein
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