I think in deployment recipe in the book there is instruction on how let nginx or apache server static file directly without web2py intervention have you read it?
I try to found the part I am talking about and paste the link Richard On Mon, Jul 15, 2013 at 11:25 AM, Marian Siwiak <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I have a problem, I have a huge database of png files, which need to be > accessed by users of my system, however, when I place them in 'static' > folder, web2py used 100 of my CPU (and it's not 286 architecture...). > Any advice? I never found a way to create links leading outside > application folder, but it would be a solution. > > Best regards, > Marian > > -- > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "web2py-users" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out. > > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.

