On Mon, 2009-03-23 at 13:34 -0700, Ross wrote: > I'm a bit confused by finding a process that works for both the dev > server and mod_python. > > Mod_python uses a 'trigger' word to know to pass serving of that stuff > by Django. So URL's with /mysite/ leading them get handled by > Django. But it seems that the urls.py then gets the URL without the > leading /mysite/ element.
The leading prefix is called the "script name" (after the web server variable SCRIPT_NAME) and is indeed stripped. The remaineder -- "path info" is what Django processes. > > The dev server however would pass along the full URL. So if I have a > URL that I am targetting which is /mysite/soStuff The development server is a limited development environment and (intentionally) doesn't have all the features of a fully blown webserver. I'm not sure how I'd feel about adding this feature to it. It's a bit of a "meh" issue, really. > > my URL conf will service the request when using the dev server with: > (r'^mysite/doStuff/$', 'mysite.project.views.doSomething'), > > whereas the same click handled by mod_python will need an URL conf: > (r'^doStuff/$', 'mysite.project.views.doSomething'), > > To make me more confused, there is a cryptic line in the documentation > that doesn't make sense to me: > > Django's URLconfs won't trim the "/mysite/" -- they get passed the > full URL That's a bug in the documentation. It used to be that way in the code, but we fixed it to handle SCRIPT_NAMEs properly. > Anyway, I don't know how I can make my urls.py work for both dev- > server and mod_python, short of having two url-confs for every URL, > which I am awkwardly doing for now. I must be missing something > here, so your help would be appreciated.. If the dev server doesn't meet your needs and you need a full webserver, then do exactly that: use a full-powered web server. Normally, though, this shouldn't really matter. All the links within your site can be made to work without caring about the SCRIPT_NAME (e.g. the "url" template tag adds it when required), so it's good practice to build your site being able to move it to a different SCRIPT_NAME prefix. Regards, Malcolm --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
