Ok, I've been following the tutorial.. I'm currently in the midst of part 3. I have the development server running on my laptop and everything is working. How Django works is 'clicking' with the exception of how it will work on a real server.
I will be using free hosting. I currently have freehostia, but considering using heliohost.org. In step 1: the tutorial states: "If your background is in PHP, you’re probably used to putting code under the Web server’s document root (in a place such as /var/www). With Django, you don’t do that. It’s not a good idea to put any of this Python code within your Web server’s document root, because it risks the possibility that people may be able to view your code over the Web. That’s not good for security. Put your code in some directory outside of the document root, such as / home/mycode." On freehostia, the root directory is /home and I have a /www folder containing a folder which contains my website. I am not able to create a new folder in /home, but I can create one in my /www folder. My files are in /www/derelict.website.name.com/index.html so I could put my code in /www/backend/something.py. Is this acceptable and what file permissions should I place on this folder? Second: In the settings.py it says I should use absolute paths.... what are absolute paths on a server? would it simply be /home/www/backend/ something.py or is there a unix file system nuance I need to know. Thirdly: Freehostia gives only this as a 'help' regarding python: The path to Python is: #!/usr/bin/python To execute a Python script you must ensure that the correct path is set in the beginning of the script. Once the path is set you must either: 1) create an .htaccess file and place the following code inside: AddHandler cgi-script .py 2) or rename the Python script by replacing .py with .cgi (no .htaccess is required in this case) Could someone dumb this down for me? Thanks -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-us...@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.
