Re: Redirect to html file

[rskm1]

> Hi! If I have some html file somewhere (i.e. /var/file), how to
> redirect user to it? It is not a template and not in a template
> folder. Thanks :)

"Redirect" probably isn't the word you wanted there.  If you really
meant "How do I make my view function display the contents of an
arbitrary HTML file?", the answer is:

def showvarfile(request):
  return HttpResponse(open('/var/file').read())

As you can see, it's your own Python code reading the file's contents
and sending it back to the browser.  So this works even if '/var/file'
isn't in a directory that your webserver is serving.  That comes with
some caveats, of course -- it's usually not the best way to do things,
and is not as efficient as just letting the webserver serve it -- but
I think that's what you were asking for...

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Re: Redirect to html file

[Alex Gaynor]

On Mon, Jun 29, 2009 at 6:11 AM, Daniel Roseman wrote:

>
> On Jun 29, 9:23 am, alecs  wrote:
> > Hi! If I have some html file somewhere (i.e. /var/file), how to
> > redirect user to it? It is not a template and not in a template
> > folder. Thanks :)
>
> It needs to be somewhere the webserver can see it. Ideally you'd put
> in the same place as the rest of your static content (CSS, JS), then
> you can use the MEDIA_URL setting to access it.
> --
> DR.
> >
>
Alternatively you could just render it using a direct to template generic
view, since just about any static HTML is a valid template file.

Alex

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Re: Redirect to html file

[Daniel Roseman]

On Jun 29, 9:23 am, alecs  wrote:
> Hi! If I have some html file somewhere (i.e. /var/file), how to
> redirect user to it? It is not a template and not in a template
> folder. Thanks :)

It needs to be somewhere the webserver can see it. Ideally you'd put
in the same place as the rest of your static content (CSS, JS), then
you can use the MEDIA_URL setting to access it.
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Redirect to html file

[alecs]

Hi! If I have some html file somewhere (i.e. /var/file), how to
redirect user to it? It is not a template and not in a template
folder. Thanks :)

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