Good point on the rewrite rules, hadn't thought of that simply because someone else did our apache set up, so I'm not too familiar with that, but that seems like a good solution.
I just thought maybe I was missing something obvious - I thought there would be a way redirect to an html in site_media right from urls.py. But now I realize that the whole point is that the server handles site_media and django handles everything that's not site_media, so I guess that would be confusing things. I think you're right, if I want to use django, I should just modify the camtasia html and put in in my templates area. And if I want the html to be in site_media, then I should have my web server do the redirect. Thanks for the pointers. Margie On Jun 5, 5:01 am, Vasil Vangelovski <vvangelov...@gmail.com> wrote: > You can achieve this without django at all. By defining rewrite rules > on your web server. But why don't you make your own view/template on > the url you want that will play the desired video? You can use the > HTML file generated by camtasia for a reference on how to write the > template. > > On Sat, Jun 5, 2010 at 2:59 AM, Margie Roginski > > <margierogin...@yahoo.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > > I am trying to serve up an mp4 video from my django app. I've > > generated the video > > using a tool called Camtasia, and it creates a set of files for me > > that all go in a single > > directory. I've put these down in my site_media directory with a > > directory structure like this: > > > site_media/img/help/overview_video/overview_video.html > > overview_video.mp4 > > overview_video_controller.swf > > swfobject.js > > exprsesInstall.swf > > > If I reference overview_video.html like this, it works just fine: > > > http://mysite.com/site_media/img/help/overview_video/overview_video.html > > > But I don't want the user to see site_media in their url. Instead I'd > > like them to go > > to a nicer looking url, like this: > > >http://mysite.com/taskmanager/help/overview_video > > > So I'm trying to figure out what I put in my taskmanager app urls.py > > in order to make it > > handle the nicer url and then redirect to site_media/img/help/ > > overview_video/overview_video.html. > > > I think I should be able to do something like this: > > > url(r'^help/overview_video$', direct_to_template, > > {"template": "[reference_to_site_media]/img/help/ > > overview_video/overview_video.html"}) > > > But I can't figure out what to put in for [reference_to_site_media]. > > Could someone give me a hand? > > > Thanks. > > > Margie > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > > "Django users" group. > > To post to this group, send email to django-us...@googlegroups.com. > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > > For more options, visit this group > > athttp://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
