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I have certain documents that I want to limit access to through Django to authorized users with permissions only.
If I'm going to use Django as a proxy to serve static files in a view, what are the implications? I'm used to serving static files in Apache and configuring that my media is served without any handlers, but what happens if someone starts downloading 500mb through my Django proxy? Will my Django thread be locked for that user until he recieves the 500mb response?
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Django also provides a mechanism for collecting static files into one place so that they can be served easily. Using the collectstatic command, Django looks for all static files in your apps and collects them wherever you told it to, i.e. the STATIC_ROOT .
"STATIC_ROOT" sets the absolute path to the folder where static files used for the apps and admin in a django project are stored and this command below creates the folder and collects static files from the apps and admin in a django project into the folder (*Setting "STATIC_ROOT" never ever influence to static file URL ...
See the answers to this question to learn how to tell the web server to handle serving the file.
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