Django Firefox font CDN

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I'm facing the well known 'Firefox CDN' problem, wherein Font Awesome is not loading correctly in Firefox. I have tried the fix given in the above link but it doesn't seem to work. The directory structure we have is:

webapps
    |- mywebsite
    |- staticfiles (for serving static files only)
    |- htdocs

I have tried placing the .htaccess file with the contents:

<FilesMatch ".(ttf|otf|eot|woff)$">
  <IfModule mod_headers.c>
    Header set Access-Control-Allow-Origin "*"
  </IfModule>
</FilesMatch>

in staticfiles, staticfiles/fonts, mywebsite, mywebsite/apache2 and even added it to the httpd.conf file. The problem, however, still persists. Anyone with a possible solution?

Answer 1

Your 'staticfiles' application is a static-only app. This means it's served by our front-end Nginx server, which doesn't read .htaccess files.

If you need to use the Apache directives that you've mentioned above, then use a static/cgi/php application for your static files, instead of a static-only application. Static/cgi/php applications are served by our back-end Apache, so your htaccess file will be processed as expected.

Hope that helps!

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