Thanks Karen
Yes I am on Windows but not for long :D
On Nov 18, 12:11 am, "Karen Tracey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 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
--~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~
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
-~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
