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| -rw-r--r-- | docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt | 10 |
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diff --git a/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt b/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt index b7de75baf1..806d135deb 100644 --- a/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt +++ b/docs/ref/contrib/staticfiles.txt @@ -350,6 +350,16 @@ This view function serves static files in development. **insecure**. This is only intended for local development, and should **never be used in production**. +.. note:: + + To guess the served files' content types, this view relies on the + :py:mod:`mimetypes` module from the Python standard library, which itself + relies on the underlying platform's map files. If you find that this view + doesn't return proper content types for certain files, it is most likely + that the platform's map files need to be updated. This can be achieved, for + example, by installing or updating the ``mailcap`` package on a Red Hat + distribution, or ``mime-support`` on a Debian distribution. + This view is automatically enabled by :djadmin:`runserver` (with a :setting:`DEBUG` setting set to ``True``). To use the view with a different local development server, add the following snippet to the end of your |