Karen, Thanks. You're awesome.
Andrew On Sep 2, 8:52 pm, Karen Tracey <kmtra...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 7:53 AM, Ozymandias <kairoscreat...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Karen, > > > Thank you. I will give that a shot a little later this afternoon. > > > The MEDIA_ROOT change really does break the sites CSS though. Not > > sure why. > > > Was I doing the changes correctly if I were going to be hosting this > > on an actual server? I'd need to change the MEDIA_ROOT in order to > > get that to work, right? > > No, serving the admin media files has no dependence on MEDIA_ROOT. > ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX, yes, MEDIA_ROOT, no. Thus my surprise at your saying > changing MEDIA_ROOT affects serving admin media files. I don't understand > how that can be. > > Admin media files are static files, and Django isn't (generally) used to > serve static files. The development server automagically serves the admin > media files (keying off the value of ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX) from the source > tree for Django, unless you tell it otherwise. For real deployment, you > would set up your real web server to serve the files that match the > ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX from wherever you have (or place) the admin media files. > The mod_python doc mentions this: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/modpython/#id3 > > The mod_wsgi doc doesn't mention serving the admin media files specifically > but does mention how to set things up for serving static files in general. > > (I anticipate the next question is what MEDIA_ROOT is needed for at all if > Django doesn't serve static files. It's used as a base directory for where > to place uploaded files: > > http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/models/fields/#django.db.mod... > > I anticipate the next question being why the name MEDIA_ROOT...that I have > no idea of the answer to.) > > Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
