On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 3:56 AM, Phonethics <phoneth...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Coming from a PHP background, I am starting to dive into Django. > Im using Ubuntu 8.10 and I didnt install Django via apt-get. > > I downloaded Django-1.1-beta-1.tar.gz > Unzipped to /home/username/code/django > sudo python setup.py install > > It has created /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django > > 1. When Django-1.1 beta 2 or final is released what will be the effect > of installing Django 1.1 beta 2 / final ? > Overwrite /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django ? > Yes. Though it would be best to remove /usr/lib/python2.5/site-packages/django before installing the next version, to ensure a clean install of the latest level. > > 2. Is there a way to have this installed in my home directory > instead ? Or to /var/www/test/django/core ? Simply don't run setup.py install, just un-tar into wherever you want the code to live and ensure your PYTHONPATH is set to include that location when you want to run code that uses Django. Being in site-packages means it's automatically on the python path, but it's very easy to run it from elsewhere. > So that I can run http://localhost/django/index.html > core folder containing the django installation. > You lost me here. You don't point your browser at the Django code. You design your site's url hierarchy, and that's completely independent of the code hierarchy (Django or your application's). In fact your web server should be configured so that it will not serve any of your code files -- settings.py, for example, may contain things like a database password that you do not want to be visible. So in general you don't put the code under the web root anywhere. It just needs to be accessible for execution (either in site-packages or listed in the PYTHONPATH) when the web server needs to call it to serve up a url. Have you run through the tutorial yet? That might help clarify things. Karen --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
