Django - 1 Installation and Setup

Django -1 installation and setup

Django is a popular Python Web Framework (probably the most).it is very easy to develop web sites using Django. In this tuition, we are going to go throw basic steps how to deploy websites using Django.

Installation

Just download the Django package from the Django official websites:

https://www.djangoproject.com/download/ and untar it. In my case, I downloaded Django-1.5.1.tar.gz.

You will find a file called setup.py.  to install the Django, use command

#python setup.py install

By default, the installation will create a directory called django under your Django unzipped directory.

To verify if Django is installed correctly, you can go into python shell and

>>import django

>>django.VERSION

if you can get the correct output showing the django version. it indicates the django is installed correctly.

Setup the new project

Go to the directory you want to locate your project.

Use django-admin.py (which is located in your previous django/bin directory ) to set up the new project. As

#django-admin.py startproject testproject

Test the new project

run the command to start up the new project

#python manage.py runserver [ip:port]