Serving Media

Created on Dec. 1, 2012, 8:10 p.m. by Hevok & updated by Hevok on May 2, 2013, 5:26 p.m.

Apache2 server with xsend file enables to serve files from the file-system:

# views.py
...
import os

from django.http import HttpResponse
from django.contrib.admin.views.decorators import staff_member_required
...

@staff_member_required
def media_xsendfile(request, path, document_root):
    response = HttpResponse()
    response['Content-Disposition'] = 'attachment'
    response['X-Sendfile'] = (os.path.join(document_root, path)).encode('urf-8')
    return response
...
# http.conf
...
XSendFile on
XSendFilePath /path/to/files
...
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Tags: files, rest, django
Categories: Tutorial, reST
Parent: Web Framework

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