A slightly improved version of [snippet #195](/snippets/195/) which keeps the logic but makes use of the `simple_tag` decorator to drastically simplify the code. For an alternative to this sort of tag, check out the media context processor in my [template_utils app](http://code.google.com/p/django-template-utils/).
The default server_error view uses Context instead of RequestContext. If you were depending on a context processor to make MEDIA_URL available in your templates, your 500.html template will not render with the correct image paths. This handler adds MEDIA_URL (and nothing else) back to the context that is sent to the template.
Returns an absolute URL pointing to the given media file. The first argument is the path to the file starting from MEDIA_ROOT. If the file doesn't exist, empty string '' is returned. For example if you have the following in your settings: MEDIA_URL = 'http://media.example.com' then in your template you can get the URL for css/mystyle.css like this: {% media 'css/mystyle.css' %} This URL will be returned: http://media.example.com/css/style.css.
with this you can have context variables which know the media url and the urls of all your applications, if you need it. save the code as myapp/context_processors.py and add the following line to `TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS` setting "mysite.myapp.context_processors.url_info", For each application you need to know the url set `MYAPP_URL` and add it to dict.
This tag appends the current git revision as a GET parameter to a media files so the web server can set an expires header far in the future. Your project must be structured such that MEDIA_ROOT/../.git exists. Usage: `<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="{% media myapp/css/base.css %}">`
This management command discovers media files from all `INSTALLED_APPS` (or the apps you specify) and copies or links them to `MEDIA_ROOT`. Put this code in a file like so: yourapp/management/commands/collectmedia.py ...and don't forget the necessary `__init__.py` files. This command includes an interactive mode (`-i` or `--interactive`) and a dry run mode (`-n` or `--dry-run`) for previewing what will happen. See `manage.py help collectmedia` for more options.
Best practice based on [YSlow recommendations](http://developer.yahoo.com/yslow/), add the following to your Apache config for your media directory. <Directory /home/.../site_media/> ... FileETag None ExpiresActive on ExpiresDefault "access plus 10 years" AddOutputFilterByType DEFLATE text/css application/x-javascript </Directory` Make sure to enable mod_deflate and mod_expires.
A command for manage.py which scans through installed applications the way admin.autodiscover does, just looking for media folders. It then creates a symbolic link to the media under MEDIA_ROOT/app_name. Usage: save in an apps management/commands folder and run with "python manage.py linkmedia" Only works on *nix systems, but there should be an equivilent way to do this with windows using .lnk files.
This view will serve media files from all media subdirectories of apps in your INSTALLED_APPS setting. Save the view as media.py in your django site folder and add to urls.py: if settings.DEBUG: urlpatterns += patterns('', (r'^media/(?P<appname>\w+)/(?P<path>.+)$', 'devel_site.media.serve_apps') )` Now suppose your installed apps setting looks like: INSTALLED_APPS = ('org.myself.myapp', ...) Then a request to http://localhost/media/myapp/directory/file.css will serve the file org/myself/myapp/media/directory/file.css.
This app allows you to utilize mysql's fulltext searching over multiple models and multiple apps, letting the site search seem more intuitive, yet still allow your content to be very structured. Essentially, it creates an entire new model that associates objects to a chunk of text to search efficiently over (and index), using the contenttypes app. Simply add the post_save events to your existing models for things you want to be searched.
Note: This concerns django 1.3 but the tags does not yet exist. We have a couple of apps, including 3rd party apps, that have the 'static' files in 'media' dirs. These files aren't found with collectstatic in django 1.3. With this snippet they will be. To use it: * paste the code in a file e.g. yourproject/finders.py. * include the finder in settings.STATICFILES_FINDERS: STATICFILES_FINDERS = ( 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.FileSystemFinder', 'django.contrib.staticfiles.finders.AppDirectoriesFinder', 'yourproject.finders.AppMediaDirectoriesFinder', ) * ./manage.py collectstatic -n -l
This view serves static media and directory indexes for a django application. It should only be used in development, media should be provided directly by a web server in production. This view assumes a django application stores its media in app/media (which is very common) and the file is referred to in the templates by the last part of a django app path. e.g. As in django.contrib.admin -> 'admin'. First we check if the media is a request in an application directory; if so we attempt to serve it from there. Then we attempt to provide the document from the document_root parameter (if provided). To use this view you should add something like the following to urls.py: ` if settings.DEBUG: urlpatterns += (r'^media/(?P<path>.*)$', 'site.media.serve_apps', {'document_root' : settings.MEDIA_ROOT}) ` You can then have the admin media files served by setting ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/admin/'
Use nginx sendfile (X-Accel-Redirect) function to serve files but pass traffic through django. Can be used to serve media files only to logged-in users.
This allows the mod_xsendfile module for Apache safely serving private files. Django take cake about processing and permissions checking, Apache server requested files. Installation of mod_xsendfile: $ tar -xzvf mod_xsendfile-0.12.tar.gz $ /usr/sbin/apxs -c mod_xsendfile-0.12/mod_xsendfile.c $ ld -Bshareable -o mod_xsendfile-0.12/mod_xsendfile.so mod_xsendfile-0.12/mod_xsendfile.o Copy mod_xsendfile.so to your local Apache modules folder. Modify httpd.conf to load an enable the module: LoadModule xsendfile_module modules/mod_xsendfile.so Add to virtual host container: <Virtual ...:80> XSendFile On XSendFilePath /home/django_projects/mysite/media/ </Virtual>
I was in need to have pluggable components that all have more or less some media files. I didn't want to pollute my config with dozens of media paths so I wrote this custom command that copies contents `<appdir>/app_media` to your `MEDIA_ROOT/<appname>` path. In template you will refer your media files like `{{MEDIA_URL}}/appname/<path to media>`