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Handling static files with Django / lighttpd

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Did you saw the section "lighttpd setup" in the Django docs? Using alias.url an url.rewrite-once you can route the requests to you app or a folder serving files:

alias.url = (
    "/pdfs" => "/path/to/my/pdfs",
)

url.rewrite-once = (
    "^(/pdfs.*)$" => "$1",
    "^(/.*)$" => "/mysite.fcgi$1",
)

aeby 2010-04-24 07:30:05

does this also work for subfolders of "/pdfs"?btw., thanks for your answer. When i go to "/path/to/my/pdfs" (other path for me, of course), django returns "Directory indexes are not allowed here.", so it seems it is still handling it.

ptikobj 2010-04-24 07:35:03

What URL do you use? 127.0.0.1:8000/pdfs/file1.pdf or something like this. Are you sure, that the "Directory indexes are not allowed here." message is not from lighttpd? Perhaps you need to enable directory listing with mod_dirlisting (http://redmine.lighttpd.net/wiki/1/Docs:ModDirlisting)

aeby 2010-04-24 08:11:10

the fault was a totally different one, i missed a slash in the argument of HttpResponseRedirect...

ptikobj 2010-04-26 17:06:30

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