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| | 78 | Serving media files |
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| | 79 | =================== |
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| | 80 | |
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| | 81 | Django doesn't serve media files itself. It'd be inefficient to flow media |
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| | 82 | files through a (relatively) complex framework when much, much more well-tuned |
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| | 83 | solutions are better. |
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| | 85 | We recommend using a separate Web server for serving media. Here are some good |
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| | 86 | choices: |
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| | 87 | |
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| | 88 | * lighttpd_ |
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| | 89 | * TUX_ |
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| | 90 | * A stripped-down version of Apache_ |
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| | 92 | If, however, you have no option but to serve media files on the same Apache |
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| | 93 | ``VirtualHost`` as Django, here's how you can turn off mod_python for a |
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| | 94 | particular part of the site:: |
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| | 95 | |
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| | 96 | <Location "/media/"> |
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| | 97 | SetHandler None |
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| | 98 | </Location> |
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| | 100 | Just change ``Location`` to the root URL of your media files. |
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| | 102 | .. _lighttpd: http://www.lighttpd.net/ |
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| | 103 | .. _TUX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server |
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| | 104 | .. _Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/ |
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