Recommended place for a Django project to live on Linux

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Prometheus picture Prometheus · Dec 11, 2012 · Viewed 8.8k times · Source

I'm uploading my first Django project to a Linux server, where I should put my project in the filesystem?

With a PHP, or ASP project, everything goes into /var/www, would it be ok to do the same and add my Django project to the /var/www folder?

Answer

Andy Hayden picture Andy Hayden · Dec 11, 2012

In the Django tutorial it states:

Where should this code live?
If your background is in PHP, you're probably used to putting code under the Web server's document root (in a place such as /var/www). With Django, you don't do that. It's not a good idea to put any of this Python code within your Web server's document root, because it risks the possibility that people may be able to view your code over the Web. That's not good for security.

Put your code in some directory outside of the document root, such as /home/mycode.

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