On 28 April 2016 at 14:41, Mie Rex <[email protected]> wrote: > for your case, site1 and site2 are two isolate webserver, correct? > Will all the files under both of these directories open to public once the > server is up and running? >
Oops - almost, but not quite. Site1 and Site2 are two different websites, being served by the same webserver. A web server can serve as many sites as you want, so long as you configure them all correctly. "open to the public" is a tricky phrase. In a traditional site (I'm an old man) that would have been the case - long list of .html files and they would be "served". These days it's more common for the files to be mini database-referencing programs (like .php files), or in the case of Django to be a systemic framework that requires one more server (a 'gateway interface', like Gunicorn, wsgi, fastcgi, etc - these normally execute the .py files). That is a very complex answer - I'm sorry, but web serving is fiddly :/ But the simple answer is yes - if you have configured the server correctly, both directories will be "served". > Is the article from the tutorial suggest to have .py files store in some > other place to avoid it being see by visitors online? > So the framework could just import scripts from designated place through > PYTHONPATH even when the scripts are not placed within site1 or site2? > I can't speak to the exact reason why it is recommended that you avoid putting them in the traditional document root. I would suggest that it's almost certainly due to security reasons. I wont guess what they are, because I can think of half a dozen off the top of my head that are confusing and potentially wrong. But it's almost certainly for server security, yes. Thank you for such a quick response especially to my extremely novice > question. > I hope I would learn a lot from this community, thank you very much > No problems. I learnt a lot here too. cheers L. -- 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/CAGBeqiNc2eSDZ_AhKJ-Q0QT1fPwf%2BT%3DpD35n10x_4tXRGArKEQ%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
