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    <p>I've worked with XAMPP, WAMPP, MAMPP, etc and am starting to look at Django.</p> <p>A majority of the work we do is very CMS orientated; although we've been told not to use third-party CMS' (mainly because of user's find them hard to use, and other issues), I've found that I can code a very simple CMS using Cake, CodeIgniter or one of the other PHP frameworks.</p> <p>And yet, I'm getting increasingly frustrated with the amount of coding I need to do just to get something up and running, and I've been told that Django is a good Python framework to use. It also seems to get a lot of buzz from reddit.</p> <p>I have some concerns and queries about moving from XAMPP to Django.</p> <p>1) Security</p> <p>Any web app should be coded defensively. Over the past few years we've seen a movement towards protecting against XSS, SQL injections, Cross site forgeries, session fixation, session hi-jacking, cookie hi-jacking; the amount of security one needs can be overwhelming. </p> <p>What things does Django do to prevent/limit XSS, SQL injections, Javascript injections, and santizing input; one normally associates with securing PHP web apps? Is it something I need to worry about, or does Django do all this stuff out of the box.</p> <p>2) What goes in the /www/ public folder?</p> <p>In a manual I read it said not to put manage.py or the other .py stuff in the main webroot, so this means I put everything outside of the webroot; so what goes in there?</p> <p>Do I put the /templates/ directory inside the webroot? How does the server know what to run?</p> <p>3) Can I still use .htaccess on Django projects? I am familiar with Apache and often use it to do routing, or blocking off bad bots, but will using .htaccess still work?</p> <p>4) Cronjobs</p> <p>Do cronjobs still work with Python/Django projects?</p> <p>5) Running Third party perl/other scripts</p> <p>In PHP you can use other libraries such as the curl library, ffmpeg, ImageMagik as well as many others; can I still use these libraries with Python/Django?</p> <p>6) Admin screen</p> <p>Django gives you an out-of-the-box admin screen; is this only for development purposes or can it put live? I am concerned about any the security of the admin screen.</p> <p>7) Integration with Discuss, Facebook, Twitter, OpenID, captcha, etc.</p> <p>There are libraries in PHP that help integrate DisQuss, Facebook, Twitter; but is it relatively easy to do an integration with these and other third party apps?</p> <p>8) E-commerce, SSL </p> <p>Are there many e-commerce sites that use Django? I've seen a lot of CMS/Blog type software but not many e-commerce sites. By which I mean, shopping card, Protx/Paypal or Worldpay integration.</p> <p>That's another thing; there are sandboxes for Protx, Paypal, Worldpay etc for PHP -- but are there any for Django?</p> <p>9) Is it worth it?</p> <p>Is it worth moving to Django from an XAMPP background? Will it really make things faster, or is that just marketing hype?</p> <p>Thanks.</p>
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