I'm using the Django alias site_media redirect to access static files on my server. I have an aspect to my django application whereby the user can upload his own files and then access those files to include them in newsletters etc...
The problem of course is that the user will upload files to /libs/ media/userfiles, but then when it comes to the time to access those files, /libs/media/userfiles/file.jpg will return a 404 because the file can only be accessed at /site_media/userfiles/file.jpg Httpd.conf : # The django static file redirect Alias /site_media /home/babo/django/mobiit/libs/media/ My erstwhile solution was to use a Rewrite rule so that the user could access /site_media/ from /libs/media ... Httpd.conf: RewriteEngine On RewriteLog "/tmp/mobiit/rewrite.log" RewriteLogLevel 9 RewriteRule ^/libs/media/(.*)$ /site_media/($1) Log Output: (2) init rewrite engine with requested uri /libs/media/userfiles/image/ file.jpg (3) applying pattern '^/libs/media/(.*)$' to uri '/libs/media/ userfiles/image/file.jpg' (2) rewrite /libs/media/userfiles/file.jpg -> /site_media/(userfiles/ image/file.jpg) (2) local path result: /site_media/(userfiles/image/file.jpg) (2) prefixed with document_root to /home/babo/django/mobiit/site_media/ (userfiles/file.jpg) (1) go-ahead with /home/babo/django/mysite/site_media/(userfiles/image/ file.jpg) [OK] As you can see from the last line, the rewrite will add the document root to the file path. In my case the file path is purely fictional and hence there's a problem using the rewrite. So what I did at that stage was put a soft link in the /mysite directory that should have take the /home/babo/django/mysite/ site_media/ to /home/babo/django/mysite/libs/media instead. Unfortunately this doesn't work either though .... ln -s libs/media/ site_media Has anyone else encountered this problem ? Thanks --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
