On 27-Oct-07, at 11:29 PM, Adam D. wrote:
> Everywhere I read about django, it suggests to put your django project > outside of your servers document root. the only thing you should put in document root is your favicon > > My question is if my document root is '/var/www/vhosts/domain.com/ > doc_root' and I put my project outside of that root, at '/var/www/ > vhosts/domain.com/django_site' how do i link it to my 'doc_root', so > when i go to http://www.domain.com, it serves my djano site? your site should not be under /var at all. It should be in your home directory. You use the Alias and Location directives in your apache config to find your files. Here is a sample apache config where sitemedia is for the static media files, and smedia is for the media uploaded to the site. <VirtualHost *:80> ServerAdmin [EMAIL PROTECTED] ServerName conference.web ServerAlias www.conference.web DocumentRoot /opt/local/apache2/htdocs/conference ErrorLog /opt/local/apache2/logs/conference_error.log # Possible values include: debug, info, notice, warn, error, crit, # alert, emerg. LogLevel warn CustomLog /opt/local/apache2/logs/access.log combined Alias /media/ "/Users/lawgon/django_src/django/contrib/admin/ media/" Alias /smedia/ "/Users/lawgon/media/" Alias /sitemedia/ "/Users/lawgon/programs/conference/sitemedia/" <Directory /Users/lawgon/programs/conference/templates/> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /Users/lawgon/media/> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /Users/lawgon/programs/conference/sitemedia/> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> <Directory /Users/lawgon/django_src/django/contrib/admin/media/> Order deny,allow Allow from all </Directory> <Location "/web/"> SetHandler python-program PythonHandler django.core.handlers.modpython SetEnv DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE conference.settings PythonInterpreter conference_main PythonDebug On </Location> </VirtualHost> and from settings.py: # Absolute path to the directory that holds media. # Example: "/home/media/media.lawrence.com/" MEDIA_ROOT = '/Users/lawgon/media' # URL that handles the media served from MEDIA_ROOT. # Example: "http://media.lawrence.com"; MEDIA_URL = 'http://conference.web/smedia/' # URL prefix for admin media -- CSS, JavaScript and images. Make sure to use a # trailing slash. # Examples: "http://foo.com/media/";, "/media/". ADMIN_MEDIA_PREFIX = '/media/' -- regards kg http://lawgon.livejournal.com http://nrcfosshelpline.in/web/ --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
