I suggest Nginx to serve your static files, and possibly also as a reverse proxy to point to your Django with Gunicorn/Apache setup (If you haven't considered Gunicorn as a production server yet, please do. It is fantastic).
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 11:21 PM, HarpB <[email protected]> wrote: > It is much better to use Apache for static files than Django. You can > still run DJango for data validation, but all static content is typically > served via Apache. In your virtualhost, you should proxy the /static/ > endpoint to the /static/ folder in Django app. > > > On Sunday, April 29, 2012 5:39:15 AM UTC-7, collectiveSQL wrote: >> >> Hi Everyone, >> >> I'm working on a heavily animated web site using the html5 canvas tag. >> Its mainly made of html, javascript and css static files and I'd like >> to integrate the Google Identity Toolkit for an Oauth 2.0 account >> chooser for signup and registration. >> >> The first question is Django a good candidate for serving up mainly >> static files and using a small Django app for authentication? >> >> And secondly what performance impact would this have over straight >> apache? >> >> More info: >> >> 1. Static web files such as html, javascript and css are stored on >> Amazon AWS S3 >> 2. Data is loaded via oData using jsdata for animations >> 3. Amazon AWS EC2 is used to scale apache web servers >> >> Thanks in advance. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msg/django-users/-/p30N-x76AEgJ. > > To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > [email protected]. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > -- Yati Sagade <http://twitter.com/yati_itay> Twitter: @yati_itay <http://twitter.com/yati_itay> Organizing member of TEDx EasternMetropolitanBypass http://www.ted.com/tedx/events/4933 https://www.facebook.com/pages/TEDx-EasternMetropolitanBypass/337763226244869 -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
