Organizing Django + Static Website Folder Hierarchy

Question

I'm currently working on developing a personal Django site that will consist of various technologies / subdomains. My main page(s) will be Django, with a blog.blah.com subdomain that runs wordpress, and several other subdomains for projects (project1.blah.com, project2.blah.com), that are static HTML files (created with Sphinx).

I'm having a lot of trouble organizing my file hierarchy and web server configurations. I'm currently running Apache on port 8080 which serves the Django stuff via mod_wsgi, and I use NGINX on port 80 to handle requests and proxying.

Here's my current filesystem layout. NOTE: I run ALL websites under a single user account.

blah@blah:~$ tree
.
`-- sites
    |-- blah.org
    |   |-- logs
    |   |-- blah
    |   |   |-- apache
    |   |   |   |-- blah.conf
    |   |   |   `-- blah.wsgi
    |   |   |-- INSTALL
    |   |   |-- nginx
    |   |   |   `-- blah.conf
    |   |   |-- blah
    |   |   |   |-- app1
    |   |   |   |   `-- models.py
    |   |   |   |-- app2
    |   |   |   |   `-- models.py
    |   |   |   |-- manage.py
    |   |   |   |-- settings.py
    |   |   |   `-- urls.py
    |   |   `-- README
    |   `-- private
    `-- blah2.org

Can anyone help me figure out where to place files for a best-practices type of deployment? The structure above ONLY contains my Django code. I've got no idea where to put my static content files (eg: html subdomain sites), and my other services (eg: wordpress stuff).

Any help would be greatly appreciated! Bonus points if you show off your directory structure.

Answer 1

I put my stuff in /srv/www/blah.org/ like this:

-- blah.org
  | -- media
  | -- amedia
  | -- templates
  | -- blah
     | django app
     ...
  | -- settings.py
  | -- config
     | -- crontab
     | -- blag.org.conf (nginx)
  | -- manage.py

Then I confiugure static /media/ and /amedia/ with nginx and proxy everything else to gunicorn serving django.