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Django 1.0 Website Development

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Django 1.0 Website Development

Overview of this book

Django is a high-level Python web framework that was developed by a fast-moving online-news operation to meet the stringent twin challenges of newsroom deadlines and the needs of web developers. It is designed to promote rapid development and clean, pragmatic design and lets you build high-performing, elegant web applications rapidly. Django focuses on automating as much as possible and adhering to the DRY (Don't Repeat Yourself) principle, making it easier to build high-performance web applications faster, with less code. This book will show you how to assemble Django's features and take advantage of its power to design, develop, and deploy a fully-featured web site. It will walk you through the creation of an example web application, with lots of code examples. Specially revised for version 1.0 of Django, the book starts by introducing the main design concepts in Django. Next, it leads you through the process of installing Django on your system. After that, you will start right away on building your social bookmarking application using Django. Various Django 1.0 components and sub-frameworks will be explained during this process, and you will learn about them by example. In each chapter, you will build one or more of the features that are essential in Web 2.0 applications, like user management, tags, and AJAX. You will also learn about good software development practices, such as keeping your application secure, and automating testing with unit tests. By the end of the book, you will have built a fully functional real-life Web 2.0 application, and learned how to deploy it to a production server.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
Django 1.0 Web Site Development
Credits
About the author
About the reviewer
Preface

Deploying Django


You have done a lot of work on your web application, and now it is the time to go live. To ensure that the transition from development to production is smooth, there are a number of changes that must be made to the application before it goes live. This section covers these changes to help make the launch of your web application successful.

The production web server

We have been using the development web server that comes with Django throughout this book. Although this server is perfect for the development process, it's definitely not intended to be a production web server because it wasn't developed with security or performance in mind. Therefore, it is certainly not suitable for production.

There are several options to choose from when it comes to the web server, but Apache is by far the most popular choice, and the Django development team actually recommends it. The details of how to set up Django with Apache depend on your hosting solution. Some hosting plans offer pre-configured...