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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Django Design Patterns and Best Practices Easily build maintainable websites with powerful and relevant Django design patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783986644
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arun Ravindran Arun Ravindran
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Preface 1. Django and Patterns 2. Application Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Models 4. Views and URLs 5. Templates 6. Admin Interface 7. Forms 8. Dealing with Legacy Code 9. Testing and Debugging 10. Security 11. Production-ready A. Python 2 versus Python 3 Index

Where are the files? This is not PHP

One of the most difficult ideas to get used to, especially if you are from the PHP or ASP.NET world, is that the source files are not located in your web server's document root directory, which is usually named wwwroot or public_html. Additionally, there is no direct relationship between the code's directory structure and the website's URL structure.

In fact, you will find that your Django website's source code is stored in an obscure path such as /opt/webapps/my-django-app. Why is this? Among many good reasons, it is often more secure to move your confidential data outside your public webroot. This way, a web crawler would not be able to accidentally stumble into your source code directory.

As you would read in the Chapter 11, Production-ready the location of the source code can be found by examining your web server's configuration file. Here, you will find either the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE being set to the...

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