Comments on: Serving Django Static Files through Apache

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 30 May 2012 05:17:24 +0000

I had thought it was my apache cfg but after changing my django settings.py the way you have, presto – voila it worked! Many thanks!

By: billy bob

billy bob — Tue, 22 May 2012 00:54:10 +0000

Thanks so much – been trying to get apache to serve static by itself for so long; most of the recipies are so complicated. This one is simples! Bookmarking this recipie though you may want to use mod_WSGI?

By: Nicholas Tung

Nicholas Tung — Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:59:48 +0000

Thanks so much, Antonio!

By: Greg Ferrell

Greg Ferrell — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 03:21:57 +0000

Thanks so much! This was just what I was looking for. Django is awesome, but this is its one Achilles heel so far.

By: Katja

Katja — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 17:59:45 +0000

Does it also work this way when I want to display pictures in MEDIA_ROOT on a webpage?
I’ve tried this and don’t find the error – but don’t see a picture … *sigh*

In the webpage I have:
http:///zooscan/profilepics/PIC.png ” />
Thanks for any hints!

By: sorl

sorl — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 14:15:45 +0000

I totally agree its not a big deal.. its just annoying to see that if statement since it doesn’t do much good, do you know any other blog posts I can spam? 🙂

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 13:26:01 +0000

sorl, while I don’t think it’s a big deal, I agree that using os.path.join is probably better.

By: sorl

sorl — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 09:01:04 +0000

Ironically if you are unsure if your production environment is set up properly you might want to set DEBUG to True. Perhaps using a similar “trick” to http://www.djangosnippets.org/snippets/644/ for urls is a better idea (import local_urls…)? As for point #2: There are absolutely no reasons not to use os.path.join

By: Antonio Cangiano

Antonio Cangiano — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:07:18 +0000

sorl, if Apache is misconfigured, checking for settings.DEBUG ensures that the files aren’t being served by Django. Regarding your second point, this article is clearly aimed at *nix systems (you wouldn’t do ln -s on Windows either).

By: sorl

sorl — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:39:48 +0000

I fail to see the point in the “if settings.DEBUG” statement in urls.py since the webserver will already be taking care of things before you get there in production…
Also “MEDIA_ROOT = ‘%s/media/’ % BASE_PATH” should probably be “MEDIA_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_PATH, ‘media’)” if you want to be os agnostic.