Making Django development server faster at serving static media

django, python

Solution

Consider using `mod_wsgi` instead, and having httpd handle the static media.

Problem

I'm using the Django `manage.py runserver` for developing my application (obviously), but it takes 10 seconds to completely load a page because the development server is very, very slow at serving static media. Is there any way to speed it up or some kind of workaround? I'm using Windows 7.

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