That makes sense. Thanks Alex!

On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 7:59:24 PM UTC-7, Alex Heyden wrote:
>
> The server that is hosting the site. The one you're trying to FTP onto. 
> Your quality of life will be greatly improved if you can SSH onto the 
> machine rather than using FTP, because the actual server software that 
> hosts Python processes usually needs to be restarted. It's unlikely (but 
> not unheard of) that you have anything like CPanel controlling a Django 
> instance. It's *probably* going to be GUnicorn or uWSGI, but there's a 
> half dozen options on that front too.
>
> I know that all sounds really wishy-washy, but I don't want to mislead you 
> accidentally. The overall architecture isn't that different from a PHP app, 
> but you might not recognize the configuration and file server technologies 
> being used. The further along you get, the easier it'll be for people to 
> figure out what's going on and help you at least figure out what files need 
> to be changed.
>
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 6:39 PM TheShoff <[email protected] 
> <javascript:>> wrote:
>
>> Thank you for your response! By host machine, do you mean the machine 
>> (computer) the site was created on or the server that is hosting the site? 
>> I have always worked in PHP and HTML and am used to downloading/uploading 
>> files to the server to make changes. 
>>
>> On Tuesday, January 15, 2019 at 2:30:44 PM UTC-7, Alex Heyden wrote:
>>>
>>> Assuming you're familiar with web technologies in general, you'd make 
>>> these changes on the host machine itself, ideally through the same 
>>> mechanism that handles deployments of source code. Code for application 
>>> logic is often in files called "views.py" or similar, and the HTML will be 
>>> in a folder called "templates" by convention, either near the top of the 
>>> code or contained within the directories (called "applications" in Django) 
>>> that hold server code.
>>>
>>> The FTP client is probably the closest you've gotten so far, but "denied 
>>> access" can mean anything from permissions to authentication issues. You 
>>> might want to start there.
>>>
>>> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 3:04 PM TheShoff <[email protected]> wrote:
>>>
>>>> I am trying to add reCaptcha to an existing Django website that was 
>>>> created by a company we no longer work with. I have server access to the 
>>>> website, but cannot figure out how to edit the files or add the reCaptcha 
>>>> form (I tried to manually add the code into the HTML and .py files and 
>>>> uploading it on my FTP client and was denied access). Do I need to login 
>>>> to 
>>>> the website using Python to add the reCaptcha form? If so, can someone 
>>>> tell 
>>>> me how? I am not looking to make any other changes at this time. 
>>>>
>>>> ***Please note I am new to Django and trying to figure out how it 
>>>> works.***
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