Hi, I'm assuming you have lots of html files that you want to serve. You could try writing a catch all url pattern that is handled by a generic view to serve these html files. I'm not sure if there is something already like this in django itself. However, if you don't want/need to process the html with the templating engine, you should just serve them at the webserver level (without going through django).
Hope it helps, On Dec 1, 12:24 am, marjenni <mark.jennings.em...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi,ne > Thank you for your quick reply :) > > Actually, I am a little concerned that I may have a lot of work ahead > of me! > > I have an existing php based website that is used to advertise holiday > accommodation, and the pages that contain advert listings are > dynamically recreated every 24 hours. > > I needed to implement a search feature, and this seemed much easier to > write in python than php, so on a new server I created a django > project, and basically all this contains is the modified home page of > the existing website with the search that generates a list of results. > > Now I need to move across the rest of the website to the new server, > and I need to do this with minimal effort. I also need to preserve the > existing page URLs. > > It maybe the case that there are no real shortcuts, but I just didn't > want to make unnecessary work for myself! > > If anyone has some tips, please let me know. > > Thanks again for the support > > Mark > > On Nov 30, 5:21 pm, creecode <creec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hello Mark, > > > On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:46:28 AM UTC-8, marjenni wrote: > > > All seems good, but what I need to know is what is the easiest/> quickest > > way of moving across the rest of the website onto this new > > > server? Will I need an entry for each page in the urls file? > > > It will be hard for us to answer that question unless we know more about > > how/where the old webpages are stored and how you would like to store them > > in your Django based website. > > > You have several options: > > > Use an app like Flatpages > > <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3//ref/contrib/flatpages/>, which > > comes with Django. Webpages are stored in the database. It might be > > pretty easy to populate your Django website with some python code you would > > write that would grab your old webpages, massage them, and store them into > > your new website database. > > > If the old webpages are static, you could put them into the static area > > of your website. > > > Give us more detail and we can probably be of more help. > > > Toodle-looooooooooooooooo.................. > > creecode -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
