Exclude path from urls.py in django

Question

I have set django.root to the root path in the url after the slash. But I want to have a download dialog in a subfolder of the root url which should not be accessed by urls.py. Is there any possibility to avoid access on urls.py and use instead the location of the apache configuration. Sorry, but this problem is very tricky and I hope you can understand my problem.

Thanks and greetz, thopil

Answer 1

AutomatedTester is correct, this is more a Apache configuration than a programming question.

Anyway, it depends on how your django code is executed (mod_python, mod_wsgi). Usually, an Apache Alias would do the trick (that's how I am doing it with mod_wsgi). For example:

Alias /download /path/to/non-django/download/code

Hope this helps.

Answer 2

Since you tagged it with mod-python, it's obviously your deployment method. Read the related docs.

The tl;dr version:

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