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Expand Up @@ -106,9 +106,11 @@ All files are stored in a folder called 'private'. We forbid access to this fol
Alledgedly `IS_SUBREQ` can be used to `perform the same job <http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg96718.html>`_, but I was unable to get this working.


Nginx backend
Nginx (>=1.5.9) backend
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Please note that as of sendfile 0.3.11 this module only works with nginx versions >= 1.5.9, due to adding support for unicode file paths. For discussion see `#45 <https://github.com/johnsensible/django-sendfile/issues/45>`_ and `#56 <https://github.com/johnsensible/django-sendfile/pull/56>`_

As with the mod_wsgi backend you need to set two extra settings:

* `SENDFILE_ROOT` - this is a directoy where all files that will be used with sendfile must be located
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