Opened 18 years ago
Closed 18 years ago
#2296 closed defect (fixed)
[patch] MEDIA_URL should be documented as requiring a trailing slash with a path component
| Reported by: | Owned by: | Jacob | |
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| Component: | Documentation | Version: | dev |
| Severity: | normal | Keywords: | slash trailing settings media_url |
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Ready for checkin | |
| Has patch: | yes | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
Due to the not-immediately-intuitive way python's urlparse.urljoin() works, MEDIA_URL requires a trailing slash if it includes a path component -- otherwise the last component of the path will be removed in the urljoin.
It would be good to point this out in the documentation wherever MEDIA_URL is mentioned, and provide an example in the default settings.py that makes this obvious (currently the example setting there has no path component).
Cheers,
Nick
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Change History (4)
comment:1 by , 18 years ago
| Keywords: | slash trailing settings media_url added |
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| Version: | → SVN |
by , 18 years ago
comment:2 by , 18 years ago
| Has patch: | set |
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| Summary: | Non-obvious python "feature" requires explicit mention in documentation → [patch] MEDIA_URL should be documented as requiring a trailing slash with a path component |
| Triage Stage: | Unreviewed → Ready for checkin |
comment:3 by , 18 years ago
| Resolution: | → fixed |
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| Status: | new → closed |
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Could the settings documentation at least be updated to show that a trailing slash is required? Seems like a no-brainer to me...