On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 10:15 AM, srn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm trying to work with the session object in my application but it
> doesn't work as expected.
> So in my settings.py I have:
>
> MIDDLEWARE_CLASSES = (
> 'django.middleware.gzip.GZipMiddleware',
> 'django.middleware.common.CommonMiddleware',
> 'django.contrib.sessions.middleware.SessionMiddleware',
> 'django.contrib.auth.middleware.AuthenticationMiddleware',
> 'django.middleware.doc.XViewMiddleware',
> 'django.middleware.transaction.TransactionMiddleware',
> )
>
> TEMPLATE_CONTEXT_PROCESSORS = (
> "django.core.context_processors.auth",
> "django.core.context_processors.debug",
> "django.core.context_processors.i18n",
> "django.core.context_processors.media",
> "django.core.context_processors.request",
> )
>
> INSTALLED_APPS = (
> 'django.contrib.admin',
> 'django.contrib.auth',
> 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
> 'django.contrib.sessions',
> 'django.contrib.sites',
> 'mySite',
> )
>
>
> With this I can access the 'user' object in my templates if for
> example I try authenticating a user in,
> but not some other variables I set mannualy with request.session
> ['aVariable']='aValue'.
> I use this for rendering : render_to_response('template.html',
> context_instance=RequestContext(request)).
> And in my templates: {{ request.session.aVariable }}
>
Not sure what's going on here, since I don't see anything wrong in what you
have described.
> And there's some other thing that's not clear to me:
> From the above configuration I understand that django stores the
> sessions in the database so if I want
> to use file storage I'll have to add this to my settings.py :
>
> SESSION_ENGINE = 'django.contrib.sessions.backends.file'
> SESSION_COOKIE_AGE = 7200
> SESSION_COOKIE_NAME = 'acookie'
> SESSION_FILE_PATH = '/temp/django'
>
> but then all the "session" thing stops working.
> Is there something that I should enable or disable from my settings
> file?
>
>
Are you on Windows? There's an open ticket that on Windows the file
backend for sessions is not working:
http://code.djangoproject.com/ticket/9084
Karen
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