From 0500321a4be08ac2a1b27ac15c4194986610a39a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Adrian Holovaty <adrian@holovaty.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 01:48:59 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Added 'Serving media files' to docs/modpython.txt

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@260 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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 docs/modpython.txt | 28 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 28 insertions(+)

diff --git a/docs/modpython.txt b/docs/modpython.txt
index 0ab37cb1af..371c207af0 100644
--- a/docs/modpython.txt
+++ b/docs/modpython.txt
@@ -74,3 +74,31 @@ revoke your Django privileges.
 
 .. _mod_perl: http://perl.apache.org/
 .. _mod_python documentation: http://modpython.org/live/current/doc-html/directives.html
+
+Serving media files
+===================
+
+Django doesn't serve media files itself. It'd be inefficient to flow media
+files through a (relatively) complex framework when much, much more well-tuned
+solutions are better.
+
+We recommend using a separate Web server for serving media. Here are some good
+choices:
+
+* lighttpd_
+* TUX_
+* A stripped-down version of Apache_
+
+If, however, you have no option but to serve media files on the same Apache
+``VirtualHost`` as Django, here's how you can turn off mod_python for a
+particular part of the site::
+
+    <Location "/media/">
+        SetHandler None
+    </Location>
+
+Just change ``Location`` to the root URL of your media files.
+
+.. _lighttpd: http://www.lighttpd.net/
+.. _TUX: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TUX_web_server
+.. _Apache: http://httpd.apache.org/