Pure python-alternative to Gunicorn/NGINX/Serving static content

[Thomas Weholt]

I'm using gunicorn and nginx on ubuntu when deploying my django
projects, but now I need to run a project on several platforms,
including windows. Is there a similar pure python configuration ( with
the expected reduced performance for serving static content )?

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trouble serving static content within an included javascript libary

[Danny Shevitz]

Howdy,

I'm pretty much a django newbie and can't figure out how to resolve the
following issue. I am hosting a local copy of the OpenLayers javascript library
and it's associated static content including .png's and .css's.

On my file system, the structure is:

mapping/static/openlayers.js
mapping/static/img/*.png
mapping/static/theme/...

Internal to OpenLayers, OpenLayers gets images and such using relative paths 
like "img/whatever.png" and "theme/default/style.css". Notice that these urls
are relative to OpenLayers.

Within Django, I am using staticfiles and staticfiles_urlpatterns for urls.

So within my web page template I can get to OpenLayers just fine via:


which resolves to:

http://localhost:8000/mapping/static/openlayers.js

The problem is that with OpenLayers, the resources referenced by
"img/whatever.png" are resolved into 

http://localhost:8000/mapping/img/whatever.png 

not 

http://localhost:8000/mapping/static/img/whatever.png 

where they would be found.

Is there an easy way to fix this? I don't want to move OpenLayers, and I really
don't want to have to edit OpenLayers.

thanks,
Danny


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Re: Serving static content

[Malcolm Tredinnick]

On Mon, 2009-03-30 at 19:37 -0400, Jack Orenstein wrote:
> I have my first Django app running, but with very basic html. I'm  
> trying to add my first  tag and finding it difficult to serve up  
> the image file.
> 
> I've read this: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static- 
> files/?from=olddocs, which points out that having django serve static  
> content is "inefficient and insecure", and then points to a reference  
> for Apache plus mod_python.
> 
> Questions:
> 
> 1) The method outlined above isn't working for me. urls.py says (for  
> my foobar application):
> 
>  (r'^media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',   
> {'document_root': '/Users/jao/django/foobar/media'}),
> 
> /Users/jao/django/foobar/media/images has xyz.gif, and my page says:
> 
>  
> 
> But when I load the page, the image doesn't show up. I get a little  
> box with a question mark in it.
> 
> 
> 2) I'm not using mod_python, I'm using mod_wsgi. Is the procedure  
> pretty close to that of mod_python?

Yes. As Graham noted in his reply, the serving of static files is done
entirely by the webserver. Although the documentation for this is in the
documentation for mod_python, it doesn't actually have anything
mod_python-specific about it. The instructions are identical.
> 
> 
> 3) Why exactly is the builtin django method insecure?

Because all software is insecure by default. The media serving code has
not been audited for security and if somebody was to report a "security"
problem with it, we are going to say it's not intended to be secure. WE
are simply not taking on the maintenance burden of maintaining software
to do something that dozens of webserver products already do quite well.
It's a matter of using the right tool for the job and Django is not the
right tool for serving static media (in 98% of cases): it's out of scope
intentionally.

Regards,
Malcolm


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Re: Serving static content

[Graham Dumpleton]

On Mar 31, 10:37 am, Jack Orenstein  wrote:
> I have my first Django app running, but with very basic html. I'm  
> trying to add my first  tag and finding it difficult to serve up  
> the image file.
>
> I've read this:http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-
> files/?from=olddocs, which points out that having django serve static  
> content is "inefficient and insecure", and then points to a reference  
> for Apache plus mod_python.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) The method outlined above isn't working for me. urls.py says (for  
> my foobar application):
>
>      (r'^media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',  
> {'document_root': '/Users/jao/django/foobar/media'}),
>
> /Users/jao/django/foobar/media/images has xyz.gif, and my page says:
>
>      
>
> But when I load the page, the image doesn't show up. I get a little  
> box with a question mark in it.
>
> 2) I'm not using mod_python, I'm using mod_wsgi. Is the procedure  
> pretty close to that of mod_python?

If using mod_wsgi you shouldn't be configuring Django to serve the
static files, you should be configuring Apache to serve them. See the
documentation:

  http://code.google.com/p/modwsgi/wiki/IntegrationWithDjango

Graham

> 3) Why exactly is the builtin django method insecure?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jack Orenstein
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Serving static content

[Jack Orenstein]

I have my first Django app running, but with very basic html. I'm  
trying to add my first  tag and finding it difficult to serve up  
the image file.

I've read this: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static- 
files/?from=olddocs, which points out that having django serve static  
content is "inefficient and insecure", and then points to a reference  
for Apache plus mod_python.

Questions:

1) The method outlined above isn't working for me. urls.py says (for  
my foobar application):

 (r'^media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',   
{'document_root': '/Users/jao/django/foobar/media'}),

/Users/jao/django/foobar/media/images has xyz.gif, and my page says:

 

But when I load the page, the image doesn't show up. I get a little  
box with a question mark in it.


2) I'm not using mod_python, I'm using mod_wsgi. Is the procedure  
pretty close to that of mod_python?


3) Why exactly is the builtin django method insecure?


Thanks for any help.

Jack Orenstein


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Re: Serving static content using Apache

[Steve Holden]

djandrow wrote:
> Managed to get it working, thanks everyone.
> 
> I guess the problem was CSS was missing from locationMatch
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Good news. For what it's worth, when I am serving static content I tend 
to set whole directories to be served statically rather than limit it to 
specific extensions by matching. So in my config files I tend to use 
stuff like

 
 SetHandler None
 

 
 SetHandler None
 

and everything from those areas gets served statically. I only have 
multiple directories because the original design didn't conveniently 
lump everything under /static/.

YMMV, of course, but it's a thought.

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Re: Serving static content using Apache

[djandrow]

Managed to get it working, thanks everyone.

I guess the problem was CSS was missing from locationMatch
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Re: Serving static content using Apache

[djandrow]

I've added this,

 #css has been added to the end
SetHandler None


but still no luck, however if i look at the pages statically on the
server rather than having apache serve them the CSS is used so now I
know that the CSS works and i guess its in the right place, although
the relative and absolute address are the same, but if thats the case
it should work anyway.

Does anybody have any ideas?

Andrew
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Re: serving static content on Windows

[apm]

Indeed, the problem was the shortcut! Now, it just works fine.

Thanks a lot, Koen
André

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Re: serving static content on Windows

[koenb]

The error message says it all: it is looking for
testporject.polls.views.django.views.static. Notice the first part. It
means your view function is taken from within testproject.polls.views
(which is probably on top in your patterns declaration).
You should take this declaration out of there and add it seperately,
something like this:

urlpatterns = patterns('testproject.polls.views',

# your patterns here
)

urlpatterns += patterns('',...

# the static view here

)

Koen

On 16 apr, 23:43, "Andre Meyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> hi all
>
> i am new to Django and trying to figure out a few things. so far, everything
> looks very nice.
>
> but now, i am stuck at something very simple: i cannot manage to serve
> static content (images, css, dojo, ...) from Django itself. i have done what
> is described athttp://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/static_files/and
> here is what i get as a response when trying to access some image file from
> the appropriate location.
>
> in urls.py:
> *(r'^site_media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
> {'document_root': 'E:\\projects\\django\\testproject\\media',
> 'show_indexes': True}),
> *http://localhost:8000/site_media/django.gif
> ViewDoesNotExist at /site_media/django.gif Could not import
> testproject.polls.views.django.views.static. Error was: No module named
> django.views.static Request Method: GET  Request 
> URL:http://localhost:8000/site_media/django.gif Exception Type:
> ViewDoesNotExist  Exception Value: Could not import
> testproject.polls.views.django.views.static. Error was: No module named
> django.views.static  Exception Location:
> C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py
> in _get_callback, line 127
>
> what is wrong with *django.views.static*? are modifications necessary to
> settings.py? i have tried various path syntaxes, but none worked.
>
> please, let me know what is going on
> thanks a lot for your help
> André
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serving static content on Windows

[Andre Meyer]

hi all

i am new to Django and trying to figure out a few things. so far, everything
looks very nice.

but now, i am stuck at something very simple: i cannot manage to serve
static content (images, css, dojo, ...) from Django itself. i have done what
is described at http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/static_files/ and
here is what i get as a response when trying to access some image file from
the appropriate location.

in urls.py:
*(r'^site_media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': 'E:\\projects\\django\\testproject\\media',
'show_indexes': True}),
*
http://localhost:8000/site_media/django.gif
ViewDoesNotExist at /site_media/django.gif Could not import
testproject.polls.views.django.views.static. Error was: No module named
django.views.static Request Method: GET  Request URL:
http://localhost:8000/site_media/django.gif  Exception Type:
ViewDoesNotExist  Exception Value: Could not import
testproject.polls.views.django.views.static. Error was: No module named
django.views.static  Exception Location:
C:\Python25\Lib\site-packages\django\core\urlresolvers.py
in _get_callback, line 127

what is wrong with *django.views.static*? are modifications necessary to
settings.py? i have tried various path syntaxes, but none worked.

please, let me know what is going on
thanks a lot for your help
André

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Re: Serving static content with development server?

[Alexander Pugachev]

Images are uploaded to directory which name is constructed from 2 parts:
MEDIA_ROOT + model's upload_to.
Then image url gets constructed from  MEDIA_URL and upload_to (and image
name itself).
So if your C:\django\site_media\ is accessible with web-server, and say
C:/django/ is DOCUMENT_ROOT of Apache for virtual host django_media.local,
and your model  has 'upload_to="site_media/"', then images are uploaded to
c:\django\site_media\IMG_0394.JPG  and are accessible at web as
http:\\django_media.local\site_media\IMG_0394.JPG.

To access images you should setup separate Apache virtual host, I think.



2007/5/9, gsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
>
> James,
> I use get_image_url and the src is still 'c:/django/site_media/
> IMG_0394.JPG'.  I think their is a property that I don't have
> correct.  Below is a list of properties that might be wrong
>
> settings.py
>
> MEDIA_ROOT = ''
> MEDIA_URL = ''
>
> 
>
> urls.py
>
> (r'^site_media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
> {'document_root': 'c:/django/site_media/', 'show_indexes': True}),
>
> 
>
> models.py
>
> class members(models.Model):
> title = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
> names = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
> theslug = models.SlugField(prepopulate_from=["names"])
> email = models.EmailField()
> city = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
> state = models.USStateField()
> image = models.ImageField(upload_to='c:/django/site_media/')
>
> //
>
> members_detail.py
>
> 
>
>
>
>
> Thanks for any help
>
> On May 8, 10:20 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > On 5/8/07, gsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> >
> > > by using the following html ' > > However, this contains the string 'c:/django/site_media/image.jpg'.
> >
> > Use
> >
> > 
> >
> > The "get_FIELDNAME_url" method will return the URL of the file
> > relative to MEDIA_ROOT, while just printing out the field value will
> > return the filesystem location of the file. This is covered in the
> > documentation:
> >
> > http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#get-foo-url
> >
> > --
> > "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of
> correct."
>
>
> >
>

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Re: Serving static content with development server?

[gsmith]

James,
I use get_image_url and the src is still 'c:/django/site_media/
IMG_0394.JPG'.  I think their is a property that I don't have
correct.  Below is a list of properties that might be wrong

settings.py

MEDIA_ROOT = ''
MEDIA_URL = ''



urls.py

(r'^site_media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': 'c:/django/site_media/', 'show_indexes': True}),



models.py

class members(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
names = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
theslug = models.SlugField(prepopulate_from=["names"])
email = models.EmailField()
city = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
state = models.USStateField()
image = models.ImageField(upload_to='c:/django/site_media/')

//

members_detail.py






Thanks for any help

On May 8, 10:20 pm, "James Bennett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 5/8/07, gsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > by using the following html ' > However, this contains the string 'c:/django/site_media/image.jpg'.
>
> Use
>
> 
>
> The "get_FIELDNAME_url" method will return the URL of the file
> relative to MEDIA_ROOT, while just printing out the field value will
> return the filesystem location of the file. This is covered in the
> documentation:
>
> http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#get-foo-url
>
> --
> "Bureaucrat Conrad, you are technically correct -- the best kind of correct."


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Re: Serving static content with development server?

[James Bennett]

On 5/8/07, gsmith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> by using the following html ' However, this contains the string 'c:/django/site_media/image.jpg'.

Use



The "get_FIELDNAME_url" method will return the URL of the file
relative to MEDIA_ROOT, while just printing out the field value will
return the filesystem location of the file. This is covered in the
documentation:

http://www.djangoproject.com/documentation/db-api/#get-foo-url

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Serving static content with development server?

[gsmith]

I have installed the Django Development Server on my computer.  I am
trying to add some css and images to my project.  I'm having problems
getting my pictures to upload correctly.  Below is the details of some
of my files.

setting.py

MEDIA_ROOT = ''

/

urls.py

(r'^site_media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': 'c:/django/site_media/', 'show_indexes': True}),

///

models.py

class members(models.Model):
title = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
names = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
theslug = models.SlugField(prepopulate_from=["names"])
email = models.EmailField()
city = models.CharField(maxlength=100)
state = models.USStateField()
image = models.ImageField(upload_to='c:/django/site_media/')


When i have 'image = models.ImageField(upload_to='c:/django/
site_media/')' defined I am able to login to my admin and successfully
add the image.  However, when i go to view the image (in a webpage) in
my browser the picture doesn't show up.  My template shows the image
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