I am currently serving my static files in Django. How do I use Apache2 to do this?

Question

(r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),

As you can see, I have a directory called "media" under my Django project.

I would like to delete this line in my urls.py and instead us Apache to serve my static files. What do I do to my Apache configs (which files do I change) in order to do this?

By the way, I installed Apache2 like normal:

sudo aptitude install apache2

Answer 1

I would read Django's official static files docs and apache mod_python documentation.

This example sets up Django at the site root but explicitly disables Django for the media subdirectory and any URL that ends with .jpg, .gif or .png:

<Location "/">
    SetHandler python-program
    PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython
    SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE mysite.settings
</Location>

<Location "/media">
    SetHandler None
</Location>

<LocationMatch "\.(jpg|gif|png)$">
    SetHandler None
</LocationMatch>