What is the best way to serve media on a shared hosting from a Django app?

Question

Hi, I'm using FastCGI to serve my Django app, so basically it works like this: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/deployment/fastcgi/#running-django-on-a-shared-hosting-provider-with-apache

What is the best way I can serve static media (images, css, etc) from this? Thanks!

Answer 1

Add any appropriate Alias directives to your web server configuration, from deepest to shallowest.

Answer 2

If using Apache to front the site we normally go with WSGI for connecting to django and then let Apache handle '/media/...anything...' as statically served content. It's a couple lines of config and Bob's your Uncle!

Update: I should add that most of our Django sites are on dedicated servers, but you also can do this easily at webfaction.com.

E.g.

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

Answer 3

I use this in my apache conf:

Alias /static/  /path/to/static/files/
<Directory /path/to/static/files/>
    Order deny,allow
    Allow from all
</Directory>