Media file serving

[mintyPT]

Django does not provide file serving out of the box. It's easy to solve this for static files (using whitenoise), but that leaves us lacking for serving media files. In the past, I used a nginx container alongside django, to serve those files.

Issue is: I'm not sure how to replicate the same behavior with kamal.

I was thinking of using nginx as an acessory, but how do I then route all requests to {{host}}/media to nginx and not django? Or better yet, is this the way to go? (I'm not looking into using S3-like services, would prefer to keep media files on the server)

[tuladhar]

Since, Kamal doesn't support path-based virtual hosting, consider hosting it on different subdomain such as assets. or media. to serve your media files and use Nginx in the container to serve them.