Django: Problems with serving static files with non ascii names

Question

Hi,

I've moved my django application from one server to another, and spotted strange bug with media after it:

Traceback (most recent call last):

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-
packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.5.egg/django/core/handlers/base.py", line 92, in get_response
   response = callback(request, *callback_args, **callback_kwargs)

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/Django-1.1.1-py2.5.egg/django/views/static.py", line 51, in serve
   if os.path.isdir(fullpath):

 File "/usr/lib/python2.5/posixpath.py", line 195, in isdir
   st = os.stat(path)

UnicodeEncodeError: 'ascii' codec can't encode characters in position 44-46: ordinal not in range(128)

The image I am trying to access actually have Cyrillic symbols in the name, but it didn't made a problem on previous environment

Thanks, Oleg

Answer 1

First of all, don't have Django serve your static files. See this: http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/howto/static-files/