Questions tagged [static-media]
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Serving static media during Django development: Why not MEDIA_ROOT?
I read this guide about serving static media with Django during development.
I noticed that MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT were not used in this. Why? What's the difference?
I tried doing it with MEDIA_URL and MEDIA_ROOT, and got weird results.

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Changing default url to static-media in Flask
I've made a website using Flask and I have no problems getting things to work properly on the built-in development server. I've also been able to get things running on my production server under mod_wgsi. However, I host my static media from a…

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help needed with Lighttpd and Apache cofiguration with Django
I am using Django as web framework and then Apache and Lighttpd as web server and static media server respectively. Lighty serves all my static content well and good, but I need to configure it to serve the new files uploaded by the user. Lighttpd…

Bharath
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Speeding up site using gzip and far-future expiration dates
I recently deployed a site http://boardlite.com . One of the tester websites http://www.gidnetwork.com/tools/gzip-test.php suggests that gzip is not enabled for my site. YSlow gives an A grade for Gzip but does not mention that gzip is on.
How do I…

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Docker cache file permission
I use py-staticmaps repository for generate static map image, In normally I run this repo via python .main.py, it is working but I use the repo in Django and docker, I have a problem with cache files,. following error. What can I do?
I build it…

Zuxriddin
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Serve static files with Django without STATIC_URL
Hi have an application that uses STATIC_URL in the settings. For example:
STATIC_URL = '/static/'
these in url patterns:
url(r'^media/(?P.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
{'document_root': settings.MEDIA_ROOT}),
and its usage in a…

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Symfony2 Define Media Uploaded Directory in Config file and access it it in controller twig
In my project i have lot of different types of document of user to be uploaded. I am using local drive to save media and ony save the file. What it want is to define the uploaded directory in only configuration file (category wise) access it in…

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