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- How to serve static files
- =========================
- .. module:: django.views.static
- :synopsis: Serving of static files during development.
- Django itself doesn't serve static (media) files, such as images, style sheets,
- or video. It leaves that job to whichever Web server you choose.
- The reasoning here is that standard Web servers, such as Apache_, lighttpd_ and
- Cherokee_, are much more fine-tuned at serving static files than a Web
- application framework.
- With that said, Django does support static files **during development**. You can
- use the :func:`django.views.static.serve` view to serve media files.
- .. _Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/
- .. _lighttpd: http://www.lighttpd.net/
- .. _Cherokee: http://www.cherokee-project.com/
- .. seealso::
- If you just need to serve the admin media from a nonstandard location, see
- the :djadminopt:`--adminmedia` parameter to :djadmin:`runserver`.
- The big, fat disclaimer
- =======================
- Using this method is **inefficient** and **insecure**. Do not use this in a
- production setting. Use this only for development.
- For information on serving static files in an Apache production environment,
- see the :ref:`Django mod_python documentation <serving-media-files>`.
- How to do it
- ============
- Here's the formal definition of the :func:`~django.views.static.serve` view:
- .. function:: def serve(request, path, document_root, show_indexes=False)
- To use it, just put this in your :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>`::
- (r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
- {'document_root': '/path/to/media'}),
- ...where ``site_media`` is the URL where your media will be rooted, and
- ``/path/to/media`` is the filesystem root for your media. This will call the
- :func:`~django.views.static.serve` view, passing in the path from the URLconf
- and the (required) ``document_root`` parameter.
- Given the above URLconf:
- * The file ``/path/to/media/foo.jpg`` will be made available at the URL
- ``/site_media/foo.jpg``.
- * The file ``/path/to/media/css/mystyles.css`` will be made available
- at the URL ``/site_media/css/mystyles.css``.
- * The file ``/path/bar.jpg`` will not be accessible, because it doesn't
- fall under the document root.
- Of course, it's not compulsory to use a fixed string for the
- ``'document_root'`` value. You might wish to make that an entry in your
- settings file and use the setting value there. That will allow you and
- other developers working on the code to easily change the value as
- required. For example, if we have a line in ``settings.py`` that says::
- STATIC_DOC_ROOT = '/path/to/media'
- ...we could write the above :doc:`URLconf </topics/http/urls>` entry as::
- from django.conf import settings
- ...
- (r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
- {'document_root': settings.STATIC_DOC_ROOT}),
- Be careful not to use the same path as your :setting:`ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX` (which defaults
- to ``/media/``) as this will overwrite your URLconf entry.
- Directory listings
- ==================
- Optionally, you can pass the ``show_indexes`` parameter to the
- :func:`~django.views.static.serve` view. This is ``False`` by default. If it's
- ``True``, Django will display file listings for directories.
- For example::
- (r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve',
- {'document_root': '/path/to/media', 'show_indexes': True}),
- You can customize the index view by creating a template called
- ``static/directory_index.html``. That template gets two objects in its context:
- * ``directory`` -- the directory name (a string)
- * ``file_list`` -- a list of file names (as strings) in the directory
- Here's the default ``static/directory_index.html`` template:
- .. code-block:: html+django
- <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
- <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en">
- <head>
- <meta http-equiv="Content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
- <meta http-equiv="Content-Language" content="en-us" />
- <meta name="robots" content="NONE,NOARCHIVE" />
- <title>Index of {{ directory }}</title>
- </head>
- <body>
- <h1>Index of {{ directory }}</h1>
- <ul>
- {% for f in file_list %}
- <li><a href="{{ f }}">{{ f }}</a></li>
- {% endfor %}
- </ul>
- </body>
- </html>
- .. versionchanged:: 1.0.3
- Prior to Django 1.0.3, there was a bug in the view that provided directory
- listings. The template that was loaded had to be called
- ``static/directory_listing`` (with no ``.html`` extension). For backwards
- compatibility with earlier versions, Django will still load templates with
- the older (no extension) name, but it will prefer the
- ``directory_index.html`` version.
- Limiting use to DEBUG=True
- ==========================
- Because URLconfs are just plain Python modules, you can use Python logic to
- make the static-media view available only in development mode. This is a handy
- trick to make sure the static-serving view doesn't slip into a production
- setting by mistake.
- Do this by wrapping an ``if DEBUG`` statement around the
- :func:`django.views.static.serve` inclusion. Here's a full example URLconf::
- from django.conf.urls.defaults import *
- from django.conf import settings
- urlpatterns = patterns('',
- (r'^articles/2003/$', 'news.views.special_case_2003'),
- (r'^articles/(?P<year>\d{4})/$', 'news.views.year_archive'),
- (r'^articles/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{2})/$', 'news.views.month_archive'),
- (r'^articles/(?P<year>\d{4})/(?P<month>\d{2})/(?P<day>\d+)/$', 'news.views.article_detail'),
- )
- if settings.DEBUG:
- urlpatterns += patterns('',
- (r'^site_media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'django.views.static.serve', {'document_root': '/path/to/media'}),
- )
- This code is straightforward. It imports the settings and checks the value of
- the :setting:`DEBUG` setting. If it evaluates to ``True``, then ``site_media``
- will be associated with the ``django.views.static.serve`` view. If not, then the
- view won't be made available.
- Of course, the catch here is that you'll have to remember to set ``DEBUG=False``
- in your production settings file. But you should be doing that anyway.
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