Commit ca141051 authored by Carl Meyer's avatar Carl Meyer
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[1.3.X] Clarified deployment docs to avoid giving users the impression that... 

[1.3.X] Clarified deployment docs to avoid giving users the impression that staticfiles should be used to actually serve files in production.

Backport of r17338 from trunk.

git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/branches/releases/1.3.X@17339 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37
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docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt

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@@ -296,8 +296,11 @@ server you're using, to serve the admin files. 
The admin files live in (:file:`django/contrib/admin/media/admin`) of the

Django distribution.



We **strongly** recommend using :mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles` to handle

the admin files, but here are two other approaches:

We **strongly** recommend using :mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles` to handle the

admin files (this means using the :djadmin:`collectstatic` management command

to collect the static files in :setting:`STATIC_ROOT`, and then configuring

your webserver to serve :setting:`STATIC_ROOT` at :setting:`STATIC_URL`), but

here are two other approaches:



    1. Create a symbolic link to the admin static files from within your

       document root.

docs/howto/deployment/modwsgi.txt

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@@ -130,8 +130,11 @@ server you're using, to serve the admin files. 
The admin files live in (:file:`django/contrib/admin/media/admin`) of the

Django distribution.



We **strongly** recommend using :mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles` to handle

the admin files, but here are two other approaches:

We **strongly** recommend using :mod:`django.contrib.staticfiles` to handle the

admin files (this means using the :djadmin:`collectstatic` management command

to collect the static files in :setting:`STATIC_ROOT`, and then configuring

your webserver to serve :setting:`STATIC_ROOT` at :setting:`STATIC_URL`), but

here are two other approaches:



    1. Create a symbolic link to the admin static files from within your

       document root.