Serving media files in Django

Serving media files

Django doesn't serve media files itself; it leaves that job to whichever Web server you choose.
We recommend using a separate Web server -- i.e., one that's not also running Django -- for serving media. Here are some good choices:

• lighttpd
• Nginx
• TUX
• A stripped-down version of Apache
• Cherokee

If, however, you have no option but to serve media files on the same Apache VirtualHost as Django, you can set up Apache to serve some URLs as static media, and others using the mod_wsgi interface to Django.
This example sets up Django at the site root, but explicitly serves robots.txt, favicon.ico, any CSS file, and anything in the /media/ URL space as a static file. All other URLs will be served using mod_wsgi:

Alias /media/ /usr/local/wsgi/static/media/

<Directory /usr/local/wsgi/static>
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

WSGIScriptAlias / /usr/local/wsgi/scripts/django.wsgi

<Directory /usr/local/wsgi/scripts>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

More details on configuring a mod_wsgi site to serve static files can be found in the mod_wsgi documentation on hosting static files.


Problem : -

Myhttp://localhost/admin/ is display in  pattern without grapic or  image not  like that which is shown in Tutorial
http://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.2/intro/tutorial02/#intro-tutorial02

 MY admin page (http://localhost/admin/)

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 where is the problem .........i am not able to find???

After a Long discussion on  django-user mailing list  i am able to find the solution 

Solution  :-
Major problem is giving the  path  wrong path of media directory.


httpd.conf  apacha file editing

Alias /media/ /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/

<Directory /usr/local/lib/python2.6/dist-packages/django/contrib/admin/media/>
Options Indexes
Order deny,allow
Allow from all
</Directory>

WSGIScriptAlias / /home/jagdeep/mysite/apache/django.wsgi

<Directory /home/jagdeep/mysite/apache/>
Order allow,deny
Allow from all
</Directory>

and after this set the default setting of setting.py  file of django .