Sorry, that was a "where is" not a "what is" The document root of your webserver is the *default* location on the file system that the webserver will look for content/websites/things to "serve".
cheers L. ------ The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this way." - Grace Hopper On 28 April 2016 at 11:56, Lachlan Musicman <[email protected]> wrote: > Mie, > > Traditionally the document root to your webserver is (depending on your > system) /var/www. > > This will be defined in the webserver (apache2/httpd, nginx, etc) > configuration. > > I normally create a folder in my home dir called www and place my sites > within that > > /home/lachlan/www/site1 > /home/lachlan/www/site2 > > At a later point, you will need to set up your webserver to read from that > directory. > > > > Cheers > L. > > ------ > The most dangerous phrase in the language is, "We've always done it this > way." > > - Grace Hopper > > On 28 April 2016 at 11:25, Mie Rex <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Hello everyone, I am new to Django and quite new to Python as well. >> >> I came across this advice while I'm going through the Django tutorial here >> https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/intro/tutorial01/ >> >> It mentioned "It’s not a good idea to put any of this Python code within >> your Web server’s document root..." >> My very newbie question is: what's document root of web server? >> I have no knowledge in building a web site so please forgive my very >> shallow question. >> Cheers >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Django users" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. >> Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/0d8833ce-1623-4811-836a-d82a1cc39ee9%40googlegroups.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/0d8833ce-1623-4811-836a-d82a1cc39ee9%40googlegroups.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at https://groups.google.com/group/django-users. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/django-users/CAGBeqiOyiX9Uy8s%2BDOp8whFwYAQU2Q0z4E%2B_1aYFb-BZ7M1ZZQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
