Re: I'm new to programming, I don't know where consider as "document root of web server"

Mie,

Traditionally the document root to your webserver is (depending on your system) /var/www.

This will be defined in the webserver (apache2/httpd, nginx, etc) configuration.

I normally create a folder in my home dir called www and place my sites within that

/home/lachlan/www/site1
/home/lachlan/www/site2

At a later point, you will need to set up your webserver to read from that directory.

Cheers

L.

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On 28 April 2016 at 11:25, Mie Rex <rexmie888@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello everyone, I am new to Django and quite new to Python as well.

I came across this advice while I'm going through the Django tutorial here

https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.9/intro/tutorial01/

It mentioned "It's not a good idea to put any of this Python code within your Web server's document root..."

My very newbie question is:  what's document root of web server?

I have no knowledge in building a web site so please forgive my very shallow question.

Cheers

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