Greg Aker

PATH_INFO on Nginx

Thanks to Karl Blessing over at http://kbeezie.com for his how-to on properly supporting PATH_INFO with Nginx/PHP-FPM.

Thanks for figuring out what I've been too frustrated to try.

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Also read this post about possible security issues and how to deal with them.

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Site Updates

I pushed some updates to my site here earlier this week. Updated to Django rev 14870, implemented Xapian with Haystack, ditched categories and moved to django-taggit.

So here's a quick and simple Django template tag I came up with that reads the file modification time of css/javascript files and appends a v=n query string.

from django import template
from django.conf import settings
from os.path import join, getmtime

register = template.Library()

@register.simple_tag
def static_asset(filename):
    """
    {% load static_asset %}
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static_asset "css/main.css" %}" type="text/css">

    Renders a link like:
    <link rel="stylesheet ...

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