Hello, I've been trying to upload and then serve user-uploaded files on my website built using Django 1.8.8 and running on Apache 2.2.15, with mod_wsgi version 4.4.23.
Per this blog http://blog.dscpl.com.au/2015/04/using-modwsgi-express-with-django.html the media files are also supposed to be also located/served from the same locations as specified by STATIC_ROOT and STATIC_URL in Django settings. But latest versions of Django disallow that, and I get this error if they are the same. File "/home/syt_admin/.virtualenvs/vishwaas_env/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/contrib/staticfiles/utils.py", line 56, in check_settings raise ImproperlyConfigured("The MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL " ImproperlyConfigured: The MEDIA_URL and STATIC_URL settings must have different values I used the following options to generate the httpd.conf (vishwaas_env)[syt_admin@VM1 vishwaas_django]$ python manage.py runmodwsgi --setup-only --https-port=443 --port=80 --server-name=www.xyz.in --user=apache --group=apache --server-root=/home/syt_admin/projects/vishwaas/www-https --ssl-certificate-file=/home/syt_admin/projects/vishwaas/www-https/startssl-certs/2_www.xyz.in.crt --ssl-certificate-key-file=/home/syt_admin/projects/vishwaas/www-https/startssl-certs/server.key --ssl-certificate-chain-file=/home/syt_admin/projects/vishwaas/www-https/startssl-certs/1_root_bundle.crt Since I am using runmodwsgi, I did not specify the --url-alias. The static directive is automatically generated in my httpd.conf as follows: *Alias '/static' '/home/syt_admin/projects/vishwaas/vishwaas_django/collected_static'* *<Directory '/home/syt_admin/projects/vishwaas/vishwaas_django/collected_static'>* * Order allow,deny* * Allow from all* *</Directory>* But there is no directive corresponding to /media. I then manually edited httpd.conf and added the following lines: *Alias '/media' '/home/syt_admin/projects/vishwaas/www-https/media'* *<Directory '/home/syt_admin/projects/vishwaas/www-https/media'>* * Order allow,deny* * Allow from all* *</Directory>* Now I am able to serve the user-uploaded files on the website. My question is - how should I tell mod_wsgi-express to generate these directives automatically? I guess I could use the --url-alias option but it takes two pieces of info (URL-PATH and DIRECTORY-PATH), so how do I specify it using 'python manage.py runmodwsgi'? What is the syntax? Please advise what is the best practice here. Regards, Tanuka -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "modwsgi" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/modwsgi. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
