Chapter 5. Maintaining a List of Virtual Hosts in an Apache Configuration File

We examined the Django web framework in great detail in Chapters 3 and 4. In this chapter we'll continue exploring the Django framework and in particular the administration application. Instead of writing the views and the forms ourselves, we are going to use the built-in object management application, but we'll customize it to our needs and requirements. The application we will create in this chapter is a web-based application to generate the virtual host configuration for the Apache web server.

Specifying the Design and Requirements for the Application

Why would you want to have an application that generates the Apache configuration files for you? There are pros and ...

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