Re: converting a large site to Django

Hi,
I'm assuming you have lots of html files that you want to serve. You
could try writing a catch all url pattern that is handled by a generic
view to serve these html files. I'm not sure if there is something
already like this in django itself.
However, if you don't want/need to process the html with the
templating engine, you should just serve them at the webserver level
(without going through django).

Hope it helps,

On Dec 1, 12:24 am, marjenni <mark.jennings.em...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi,ne
>    Thank you for your quick reply :)
>
> Actually, I am a little concerned that I may have a lot of work ahead
> of me!
>
> I have an existing php based website that is used to advertise holiday
> accommodation, and the pages that contain advert listings are
> dynamically recreated every 24 hours.
>
> I needed to implement a search feature, and this seemed much easier to
> write in python than php, so on a new server I created a django
> project, and basically all this contains is the modified home page of
> the existing website with the search that generates a list of results.
>
> Now I need to move across the rest of the website to the new server,
> and I need to do this with minimal effort. I also need to preserve the
> existing page URLs.
>
> It maybe the case that there are no real shortcuts, but I just didn't
> want to make unnecessary work for myself!
>
> If anyone has some tips, please let me know.
>
> Thanks again for the support
>
> Mark
>
> On Nov 30, 5:21 pm, creecode <creec...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
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> > Hello Mark,
>
> > On Wednesday, November 30, 2011 8:46:28 AM UTC-8, marjenni wrote:
>
> > All seems good, but what I need to know is what is the easiest/> quickest way of moving across the rest of the website onto this new
> > > server? Will I need an entry for each page in the urls file?
>
> > It will be hard for us to answer that question unless we know more about
> > how/where the old webpages are stored and how you would like to store them
> > in your Django based website.
>
> > You have several options:
>
> >     Use an app like Flatpages <https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.3//ref/contrib/flatpages/>, which
> > comes with Django.  Webpages are stored in the database.  It might be
> > pretty easy to populate your Django website with some python code you would
> > write that would grab your old webpages, massage them, and store them into
> > your new website database.
>
> >     If the old webpages are static, you could put them into the static area
> > of your website.
>
> > Give us more detail and we can probably be of more help.
>
> > Toodle-looooooooooooooooo..................
> > creecode

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