I'm trying to this to work: users can download their files from their account page from a url like this: http://example.com/account/download/a1234565789asedga-2/ for which django processes the authentication and then passes along the info to nginx to serve the file.
However, I keep getting stuck. The view works in my local windows machine (windows/apache), but not on my server (gentoo/nginx/fcgi). *sigh* I'd really appreciate it if someone could take a look and help me figure out what I'm doing wrong, please. Here's the error message I'm getting from nginx: 2009/06/28 18:59:41 [error] 16316#0: *194 open() "/usr/ htmlBook.pdf.zip" failed (2: No such file or directory), client: 174.22.130.187, server: example.com, request: "GET /account/download/ a1234565789asedga-2/ HTTP/1.1", upstream: "fastcgi://127.0.0.1:1024", host: "example.com", referrer: "http://example.com/account/shelf/"; I know what's wrong in the error message ('/usr/htmlBook.pdf.zip'), but I can't tell *where* it's getting that incorrect location. As far as I can tell, I'm sending it the actual location to grab the file and file name ('/home/me/web/example.com/public/media/books/ Book.pdf.zip'), but apparently I'm not getting that from django to nginx correctly. Here are the relevant bits of code: # part of the views.py def download_file(request, dlkey=None, ftype=None): if request.user.is_authenticated(): try: k = Ebook.objects.select_related().filter (ftype__exact=ftype).filter (book__orderdetail__dlkey__exact=dlkey).filter (book__orderdetail__medium__exact='E')[:1] for e in k: ebook = e.ebook filename = os.path.join(PROTECTED_DIR, os.path.basename (ebook)) response = HttpResponse() response['X-Accel-Redirect'] = ebook response['Content-Disposition'] = "attachment;filename=" + ebook return response except Exception: raise Http404 # part of the nginx configuration for the domain: location ^~ /account/download/ { include /etc/nginx/ fastcgi_params_django; fastcgi_pass 127.0.0.1:1024; alias /home/me/web/example.com/ public/media/books/; } location ^~ /media/books/ { root /home/me/web/example.com/ public; internal; } # in settings.py PROTECTED_DIR = '/home/me/web/example.com/public/media/books/' If I do this in the view: response['X-Accel-Redirect'] = ebook I get the error message from above with nginx trying to grab the file from the wrong location, but the browser presents me with a correctly named (broken) zip file for download. (WinRAR says "The archive is either in unknown format or damaged.") If I do what I actually think I should be doing in the view: response['X-Accel-Redirect'] = filename I get a django 404 page with this as the request URL after clicking on the download link: http://example.com/home/me/web/example.com/public/media/books/Book.pdf.zip/ The frustrating thing is this works (I can save the requested zip file and open it just fine) on my windows setup with this part changed in the views.py: for e in k: ebook = e.ebook filename = os.path.join(PROTECTED_DIR, os.path.basename (ebook)) handle = open(filename, 'rb') book = handle.read() handle.close() response = HttpResponse(book) response['Content-Type'] = 'application/x-zip- compressed' response['Content-Disposition'] = "attachment;filename=" + ebook return response When I add the open() bit in the live version and change to: response['X-Accel-Redirect'] = book it gives me a big old mess. (Presumably because I'm trying to give it the file itself, rather than the URI that X-Accel-Redirect requires [1].) So, the conclusion I've come to after many hours of reading docs, trial and error, googling, and researching errors is that I haven't a clue where it is that I'm telling django to send the wrong URL to nginx. Help! Thanks - Annie [1] http://wiki.nginx.org/NginxXSendfile --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
