David S. wrote:
> I am wondering how best to serve PDF files in Django.
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> I am using ReportLab to generate a file.
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> So should I name it and place it where the server can fetch it?
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> Does the URL have to end in pdf for it to be handled by the browser?
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> Can I configure the development server to this task?
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> Thanks for any help.
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> Peace,
> David S.
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Hi,
You are best off sticking all your generated files in a dedicated
directory, and serving them up using your normal webserver.
Eg in apache, have something like
DocumentRoot /path/to/parent/directory/
<Location "/gen">
SetHandler None
</Location>
and then stuff your pdfs in /path/to/parent/directory/gen/
For performance reasons its better to serve this and all other static
files with a different webserver, eg another apache with no modpython
loaded, or lighttpd.
The dev server is not designed to serve static files.
Robert
