Issues In Initial Setup For Django Project

I am learning Django from the official documentation and while going through the tutorial at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial01/, I am stuck at creating a proje

Solution 1:

You can just run django-admin startproject mysite（Note: not django-admin.py）, because if you install django by pip, a executable program named 'django-admin.exe' will be added to 'C:\Python34\Scripts', which is already in your environment variable 'PATH' normally(if not, add it to PATH).

Solution 2:

I was facing the same issue while installing Django 2.0.5. This can be resolved using Virtual Environments.

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Environment details:

• Python version: 3.6
• OS: Ubuntu 18.xx.x

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Steps:

1. Install Virtual Environment pip install virtualenv
2. Create a Virtual work-space('VEnv') virtualenv --python=python3 VEnv
3. Activate the Virtual Environment: cd VEnv/ source bin/activate
4. Install Django(Version - 2.0.5) pip install django==2.0.5
5. Create Project (Project Name: HelloDot) django-admin startproject HelloDot
6. Run the server as below and then access it from "http://127.0.0.1:8000/" cd HelloDot/ python manage.py runserver 8000

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For more details, take a look at this: https://www.howtoforge.com/tutorial/how-to-install-django-on-ubuntu/

Solution 3:

Make sure that you follow the troubleshooting guide because it looks like you don't have django-admin.py on your system path correctly. From the docs:

django-admin.py should be on your system path if you installed Django via python setup.py. If it’s not on your path, you can find it in site-packages/django/bin, where site-packages is a directory within your Python installation. Consider symlinking to django-admin.py from some place on your path, such as /usr/local/bin.

You should also use a virtualenv for each of your projects to allow isolation of dependencies per project and easier management of them. virtualenvwrapper is a useful tool for creating and managing your virtualenvs.