Daniel Roseman wrote:
>
> On Feb 6, 1:17 pm, Brandon Taylor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> Hello everyone,
>>
>> I'm just getting started, so please bear with me. How should I
>> organize my website? I haven't seen a definitive example of where to
>> put settings files, templates, applications, images, stylesheets, etc.
>>
>> My best guess would be something like:
>>
>> /website_root
>> /source
>> settings.py
>> urls.py
>> __init__.py
>>
>> /templates
>> /images
>> /stylesheets
>> /javascripts
>> base_template.html
>> some_other_template.html
>>
>> /app1
>> model_name.py
>> etc
>>
>> Is this even close? I know the structure is up to me, but I'd like to
>> establish a good pattern for organization.
>>
>> Thanks for your advice!
>>
>> Brandonwww.btaylordesign.com
>>
>
> This is fairly close to what I'd do, but with two important
> exceptions.
>
> One, *don't put your code in your website root*! It does not need to
> be read by your webserver, and shouldn't be accessible for external
> users - that's a big security risk (imagine someone browsing to your
> settings.py and reading your database password). Put it in your home
> directory, or a central code area, but not under your Apache root.
>
or make sure you have a proper .htaccess in the directory. But I agree,
out the root
is better
-- tony
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