On Feb 18, 12:05 am, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
wrote:
> On Sat, 2007-02-17 at 23:42 -0800, kbochert wrote:
>
> > On Feb 17, 11:04 pm, Malcolm Tredinnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > wrote:
> [...]
> > > It will very much vary on a per-host basis. Django code may not be
> > > responsible for serving all of the URLs for a particular site, for
> > > example. Somewhere in the web server's configuration (regardless of
> > > which web server is being used), there will be a setting that says
> > > "everything under this part of the URL tree gets passed off to that
> > > Django process over there for processing". Different parts of the URL
> > > tree may be passed off to different Django instances. So whether Django
> > > is responsible for serving a response towww.mysite.com/dependson the
> > > configuration of your site.
>
> > Do you mean the configuration of my site, or my host's configuration
> > of the server?
>
> The server: without at least some minimal server configuration (and
> possibly some intermediate setup on your side as well), your code is
> never going to be called.
>
> > Do I need to talk to my host to find this out, and then have different
> > url.py
> > files for development and deployment?
>
> > I.E., how do I design and test a url.py which will work on my host?.
>
> Have a look in Django's installation document (and fastcgi setup
> document) for a couple of examples of how Django can be integrated with
> a webserver.
>
> If you are really confused about this, then trying to install your app
> in a hosting environment without first testing it on your local machine
> with your own copy of Apache, etc, is probably going to be a long and
> frustrating exercise, because you just won't know what to expect or be
> able to ask the right questions of your hosting provider.
So using Django requires a facility with Apache? Not what I expected!
>
> The sort of things you would need to know include: are you using
> mod_python (not particularly common on a cohosting site)? Does your
> hosting provider support fastcgi so that you can access Django that way?
> Are they a known Django-friendly hosting provider or do they say "what's
> Django" (the latter case is much harder for people who are not
> experienced in setting these things up, because you are going to have to
> solve almost all problems yourself).
I was considering using a Django-friendly host (maybe Webfaction).
Do I just ask them how I should write urls.py for my particular
directory structure?
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