From 5cef76ffb727d75da9126299a2d66820c109617e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Russell Keith-Magee Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 07:16:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Fixed #10426 -- Added note on language variables required for Apache to survive non-ASCII file uploads. Thanks to daybreaker for the report, and david for the draft text. git-svn-id: http://code.djangoproject.com/svn/django/trunk@11170 bcc190cf-cafb-0310-a4f2-bffc1f526a37 --- docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 23 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt b/docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt index 9ba1c2f9fb..8b9a4d3696 100644 --- a/docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt +++ b/docs/howto/deployment/modpython.txt @@ -6,8 +6,8 @@ How to use Django with Apache and mod_python .. highlight:: apache -The `mod_python`_ module for Apache_ can be used to deploy Django to a -production server, although it has been mostly superseded by the simpler +The `mod_python`_ module for Apache_ can be used to deploy Django to a +production server, although it has been mostly superseded by the simpler :ref:`mod_wsgi deployment option `. mod_python is similar to (and inspired by) `mod_perl`_ : It embeds Python within @@ -378,3 +378,24 @@ as necessary. .. _Expat Causing Apache Crash: http://www.dscpl.com.au/articles/modpython-006.html .. _mod_python FAQ entry: http://modpython.org/FAQ/faqw.py?req=show&file=faq02.013.htp .. _Getting mod_python Working: http://www.dscpl.com.au/articles/modpython-001.html + +If you get a UnicodeEncodeError +=============================== + +If you're taking advantage of the internationalization features of Django (see +:ref:`topics-i18n`) and you intend to allow users to upload files, you must +ensure that the environment used to start Apache is configured to accept +non-ASCII file names. If your environment is not correctly configured, you +will trigger ``UnicodeEncodeError`` exceptions when calling functions like +``os.path()`` on filenames that contain non-ASCII characters. + +To avoid these problems, the environment used to start Apache should contain +settings analogous to the following:: + + export LANG='en_US.UTF-8' + export LC_ALL='en_US.UTF-8' + +Consult the documentation for your operating system for the appropriate syntax +and location to put these configuration items; ``/etc/apache2/envvars`` is a +common location on Unix platforms. Once you have added these statements +to your environment, restart Apache.