Author: russellm Date: 2009-07-03 02:16:25 -0500 (Fri, 03 Jul 2009) New Revision: 11170
Modified: django/trunk/docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt Log: Fixed #10426 -- Added note on language variables required for Apache to survive non-ASCII file uploads. Thanks to daybreaker for the report, and david for the draft text. Modified: django/trunk/docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt =================================================================== --- django/trunk/docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt 2009-07-03 07:15:48 UTC (rev 11169) +++ django/trunk/docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt 2009-07-03 07:16:25 UTC (rev 11170) @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ .. highlight:: apache -The `mod_python`_ module for Apache_ can be used to deploy Django to a -production server, although it has been mostly superseded by the simpler +The `mod_python`_ module for Apache_ can be used to deploy Django to a +production server, although it has been mostly superseded by the simpler :ref:`mod_wsgi deployment option <howto-deployment-modwsgi>`. mod_python is similar to (and inspired by) `mod_perl`_ : It embeds Python within @@ -378,3 +378,24 @@ .. _Expat Causing Apache Crash: http://www.dscpl.com.au/articles/modpython-006.html .. _mod_python FAQ entry: http://modpython.org/FAQ/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq02.013.htp .. _Getting mod_python Working: http://www.dscpl.com.au/articles/modpython-001.html + +If you get a UnicodeEncodeError +=============================== + +If you're taking advantage of the internationalization features of Django (see +:ref:`topics-i18n`) and you intend to allow users to upload files, you must +ensure that the environment used to start Apache is configured to accept +non-ASCII file names. If your environment is not correctly configured, you +will trigger ``UnicodeEncodeError`` exceptions when calling functions like +``os.path()`` on filenames that contain non-ASCII characters. + +To avoid these problems, the environment used to start Apache should contain +settings analogous to the following:: + + export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' + export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' + +Consult the documentation for your operating system for the appropriate syntax +and location to put these configuration items; ``/etc/apache2/envvars`` is a +common location on Unix platforms. Once you have added these statements +to your environment, restart Apache. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django updates" group. To post to this group, send email to django-updates@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-updates+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-updates?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
