I just got it to work checking the error log from nginx:
location /home/www-data/web2py/applications/YOURAPP/uploads {
internal;
expires max;
include /etc/nginx/conf.d/web2py/gzip.conf;
alias /home/www-data/web2py/applications/YOURAPP/uploads;
}
Cool!
Thanks!
Tito
On Wed, Sep 25, 2013 at 7:15 PM, Niphlod <niph...@gmail.com> wrote:
> did you enable it in nginx with the configurations explained in their wiki
> ?
>
>
> On Wednesday, September 25, 2013 5:53:05 PM UTC+2, Tito Garrido wrote:
>
>> Hi Niphlod!
>>
>> I am using nginx as server and when I tried to use:
>>
>> response.headers['X-Accel-**Redirect'] = os.path.join(request.folder,
>> 'uploads', document.file)
>> return ''
>> mine is:
>>
>> *...
>> path = splits[0] + '.' + splits[1] + '/' + splits[2][:2] + '/'
>> global_path = path + image
>> filename = os.path.join(request.folder,'uploads',global_path)
>> response.headers['X-Accel-Redirect'] = filename
>> *
>> *return ''*
>>
>> *filename is returning: "/home/www-data/web2py/
>> applications/indiana/uploads/site.logo_montadora/b6/site.logo_montadora.
>> b67dbafcc4aa040e.666f72642e6a7067.jpg"*
>>
>> It raises error 404. I have checked the path:
>> www-data@li69-46:/$ ls -alh /home/www-data/web2py/**
>> applications/indiana/uploads/**site.logo_montadora/b6/site.**
>> logo_montadora.**b67dbafcc4aa040e.**666f72642e6a7067.jpg
>> -rw-r--r-- 1 www-data www-data 31K Aug 16 11:04 /home/www-data/web2py/**
>> applications/indiana/uploads/**site.logo_montadora/b6/site.**
>> logo_montadora.**b67dbafcc4aa040e.**666f72642e6a7067.jpg
>>
>> And www-data user is able to read it... Am I doing something wrong?
>>
>> Do I need to enable anything on nginx side?
>> 2.5.1-stable+timestamp.2013.**06.06.15.39.19
>> (Running on nginx/1.1.19)
>>
>> Thanks in advance!
>>
>> Tito
>>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 22, 2013 at 5:31 PM, Niphlod <nip...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> uhm. download() lets web2py stream the file instead of nginx.
>>> fast_download() too, it just skips the part that handles the authorization
>>> logic and adds correct cache headers, but this will lead to faster loading
>>> of pages from the 2nd time the user accesses the page: it won't change a
>>> thing in the 1st request.
>>>
>>> Why don't you just put those images in "static/something" ?
>>>
>>> The other very smart thing to do is using http://wiki.nginx.org/X-accel.
>>> This basically enables nginx to "intercept" an empty page with some
>>> special headers (so web2py does it without even accessing the file) and
>>> take care of serving the file instead of your application. This will
>>> probably speed up your 1st request (and releaves some pressure from the
>>> web2py process), but the hard-limit of bandwith will of course remain
>>> there, no matter what.
>>>
>>> Your fast download will then kinda look like
>>> def fast_download():
>>> ....
>>>
>>> filename = os.path.join(request.folder,'**uploads',request.args(0))
>>>
>>> response.headers['X-Accel-**Redirect'] = os.path.join(request.folder
>>> , 'uploads', document.file)
>>> return ''
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thursday, August 22, 2013 10:06:34 PM UTC+2, Adi wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Hello everyone.
>>>>
>>>> Am trying to populate a page with around 20 dynamic images from the
>>>> upload folder, but they get rendered extremely slow, even as thumbnails.
>>>> Tried using a suggest approach from the forum "fast_download()", but
>>>> without luck in my case.
>>>>
>>>> Anyone has a suggestion, what should I be looking at, and how to
>>>> improve the speed of loading dynamic images?
>>>>
>>>> Platform: clean ubuntu node with web2py and nginx (no caching setup,
>>>> 1Gb of ram). Nothing else is running on it.
>>>>
>>>> Performed following three tests:
>>>>
>>>> Regular download():
>>>> Compressed images (through PIL, with extension .thumbnail):
>>>> http://www.webpagetest.org/**res**ult/130822_1F_WAD/<http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130822_1F_WAD/>(500Kb
>>>> in 25 sec)
>>>> Regular size images: http://www.webpagetest.org/**res**
>>>> ult/130822_5K_ZSX/ <http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130822_5K_ZSX/>(3Mb
>>>> in 26 sec)
>>>>
>>>> Fast_Download() with regular size images:
>>>> http://www.webpagetest.org/**res**ult/130822_C3_1008/<http://www.webpagetest.org/result/130822_C3_1008/>(3Mb
>>>> in 28 sec)
>>>>
>>>> Tried to implement caching in nginx site config, but that disabled
>>>> images completely, and I couldn't get it to work:
>>>>
>>>> #location ~* ^.+\.(jpg|jpeg|gif)$ {
>>>> # root /home/www-data/web2py/**applicat**ions/;
>>>> # access_log off;
>>>> # expires 30d;
>>>> #}
>>>>
>>>> or
>>>>
>>>> #location ~* \.(jpg|jpeg|gif|png|css|js|**ico**|xml)$ {
>>>> # access_log off;
>>>> # log_not_found off;
>>>> # expires 180d;
>>>> #}
>>>>
>>>> Fast download used:
>>>> def fast_download():
>>>> session.forget(response)
>>>> cache.action(time_expire=60480****0)(lambda: 0)()
>>>>
>>>> # very basic security (only allow fast_download on
>>>> your_table.upload_field):
>>>> if not request.args(0).startswith("**pr**oduct.image"):
>>>> return download()
>>>>
>>>> filename = os.path.join(request.folder,'**u**ploads',request.args(0
>>>> ))
>>>>
>>>> return response.stream(open(filename,****'rb'))
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Segment of the code that displays the images:
>>>>
>>>> <div id="prod_img" itemprop="image">
>>>> {{if p.image:}}
>>>> <a href="{{=product_link}}">
>>>> {{
>>>> #big_regex = re.compile('|'.join(map(re.**esc**ape,
>>>> IMAGE_EXTENSIONS)))
>>>> #tmb_image = big_regex.sub(INDEX_TMB, p.image)
>>>> }}
>>>> <img src="{{=URL('download',
>>>> args=p.image, scheme=True, host=True)}}"
>>>> alt="{{=product_name}}" href="{{=product_link}}"
>>>> height="180px" width="160px"/>
>>>> </a>
>>>> <img data-src='{{=tmb_image}}' >
>>>> {{pass}}
>>>> </div>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
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