Transferring away from website host/designer - Retain Django

[Joel McLaughlin]

Hi, I have a website that is currently hosted on the Django platform using a Wagtail template.  I didn't design the website, however; I am trying to transfer because my hosting is like $500 a month and the designers aren't being helpful.  I told them I need all the files to transfer the website to another host using the Django platform.

They ONLY provided the basic HTML files as if the website were static.  No database, no template files or anything.

Can someone that has knowledge on Django let me know exactly everything I need to transfer?  Being as specific as possible would be EXTREMELY helpful.

I am guessing there are template base files.  Databases, etc....  Right now I only have the HTML, CSS and Images to upload the site as a static website.

Thank you so much.

[Mark Phillips]

One suggestion would be for you to read through the django tutorial (or actually do the tutorial) so you get a feel for what a django site needs to run. Then ask for those files, build up the site and test it. 

At a minimum you need the database files (Psotgres, MySQL, SQLite....), the templates, the forms, and all the little glue pieces (files - is settings.py etc) that make a django site. 

A second thought - the previous developers must have had a way to deploy the site....ask them for those files and methodology.

Good Luck!

Mark

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[James Schneider]

On May 16, 2017 4:58 PM, "Joel McLaughlin" <dataf...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hi, I have a website that is currently hosted on the Django platform using a Wagtail template.  I didn't design the website, however; I am trying to transfer because my hosting is like $500 a month and the designers aren't being helpful.  I told them I need all the files to transfer the website to another host using the Django platform.

They ONLY provided the basic HTML files as if the website were static.  No database, no template files or anything.

Check your contact with them regarding ownership of those files, especially the database. In most cases, the application is developed specially for the customer, and the customer is the owner of the code since they paid to have it developed. An official letter from a lawyer explaining the ownership clauses in the contract may be enough to get them to budge. If you are using per-built templates that the company offers as an add-on, you may not be able to acquire those templates specifically. The static version is easy-enough to pull on your own.

If you aren't able to acquire the files, depending on the complexity of the site, you may be better off just developing from scratch. The business logic of the application is ultimately what you're after (the front-end design is incidental and can be more easily created and applied later). If you aren't retrieving that logic from the existing site, you've lost a large portion of the value that will take time to recover. 

The biggest loss will be the database with all of your existing business information (and schema). That can't be rebuilt (the info, not the schema), and is probably the most valuable piece.

It would be worth going harder after the developers for that, if nothing else.

-James

[Antonis Christofides]

Hi,

When you say the website is hosted on the Django platform using a Wagtail template, I understand that you mean it's made with Django and Wagtail? It's probably hosted on a hosting service. All the files you need should be at the hoster, meaning that if you login you could probably get them from there.

Regards,

A.

Antonis Christofides
http://djangodeployment.com

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