Django project initial setup problems
I am learning Django from the official documentation and after going through the tutorial at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.7/intro/tutorial01/ I get stuck creating part of the project.
When I run django-admin.py startproject mysite
I get the following error
C:\Python34>django-admin.py startproject mysite
Usage: django-admin.py subcommand [options] [args]
Options:
-v VERBOSITY, --verbosity=VERBOSITY
Verbosity level; 0=minimal output, 1=normal output,
2=verbose output, 3=very verbose output
--settings=SETTINGS The Python path to a settings module, e.g.
"myproject.settings.main". If this isn't provided, the
DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable will be
used.
--pythonpath=PYTHONPATH
A directory to add to the Python path, e.g.
"/home/djangoprojects/myproject".
--traceback Raise on exception
--no-color Don't colorize the command output.
--version show program version number and exit
-h, --help show this help message and exit
Type 'django-admin.py help <subcommand>' for help on a specific subcommand.
Available subcommands:
[django]
check
compilemessages
createcachetable
dbshell
diffsettings
dumpdata
flush
inspectdb
loaddata
makemessages
makemigrations
migrate
runfcgi
runserver
shell
sql
sqlall
sqlclear
sqlcustom
sqldropindexes
sqlflush
sqlindexes
sqlinitialdata
sqlmigrate
sqlsequencereset
squashmigrations
startapp
startproject
syncdb
test
testserver
validate
Note that only the basic Django commands are listed as the settings are not configured properly.
error: Requested setting INSTALLED_APPS, but settings are not configured
. You must either define the environment variable DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE or call settings.configure() before accessing settings.).
I am using Python 3.4.1 and django 1.7. I don't have another Django version and this is the first project I create.
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Make sure 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 in your system path if you installed Django via python setup.py. If it's not in your path, you can find it in site-packages / django / bin, where site-packages is a directory inside your Python installation. Consider symbolically linking to django-admin.py from somewhere in your path like / usr / local / bin.
You should also use virtualenv for each of your projects to provide dependency isolation for each project and make it easier to manage. virtualenvwrapper is a useful tool for creating and managing your virtual files.
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You can simply run django-admin startproject mysite
(Note: not django-admin.py
), because if you install django by pip, an executable named 'django-admin.exe' will be added to 'C: \ Python34 \ Scripts' which is already in your variable environment "PATH" usually (if not, add it to PATH).
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