Serving executables over web

[matt davies]

Hello everyone, I've got the following lines in my host.conf that I'm  
including into my main nginx.conf file

location ~* ^.+\.(pdf|mpg|avi|mp3|swf|zip|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|xls|exe| 
ppt|txt|tar|mid|midi|wav|rtf|mpeg|jpg|jpeg|gif|png|ico|css|bmp|js)$ {
             root   /www/django/django_projects/son/static;
             limit_rate 5000K;
             access_log  /www/django/django_projects/log/ 
inform_nginx_django_media.log  download;
         }

It works fine for all my js and css files, I can see them in the log  
no problem, but we have two 10mb .exe files that are taking an  
incredibly long time to download, and I can't find any mention of them  
in the media log file.  As you can see exe is in the list of  
executables, and the files themselves are definitely within the root  
defined.

Can anyone think of any reason for this?

It's as if the fastcgi that the django is using to run is serving the  
files instead.

Any help on this would be greatly appreciated.

Matt