Denigma
hevok @hevok December 1, 2012
Tutorial reST #django #files #rest

Serving Media

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](/blog/132/)-Disposition'] = 'attachment'
    response['X-Sendfile'] = (os.path.join(document_root, path)).encode('urf-8')
    return response
...

http.conf

... XSendFile on XSendFilePath /path/to/files ...