Thanks Alex! That's just what I wanted to know, could I switch easily. I would rather put off some of that configuration time! W
On Jun 3, 3:14 pm, Alex Gaynor <alex.gay...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, zignorp <zign...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > I just fixed this and it's working swimmingly. It seems that 10.5 > > doesn't come with that directory, so I just did what I said I would in > > the last paragraph, and I have my first page. I'm very excited. Now > > I have to decide whether to go through the pain of getting mysql > > working right with django, or just trying my first project using sql > > light. I am using mysql in a MAMP install already. Any thoughts on > > this would be appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Wendy > > > On Jun 3, 2:35 pm, zignorp <zign...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > Hello, > > > I've just installed the development version in leopard on the mac, and > > > when I did this step: > > > > "On Unix-like systems, create a symbolic link to the file django-trunk/ > > > django/bin/django-admin.py in a directory on your system path, such > > > as /usr/local/bin. For example: > > > > ln -s `pwd`/django-trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin > > > > This simply lets you type django-admin.py from within any directory, > > > rather than having to qualify the command with the full path to the > > > file." > > > > It looks like now local/bin is just a shortcut to django-admin.py, not > > > a directory. > > > > So when I try to run django-admin.py startproject from elsewhere, it > > > doesn't understand. > > > > Obviously I haven't been using my unix commands recently. I think I > > > need to remove the alias file and create bin as a directory, then run > > > that above command again, but I'm not sure if that's correct, or the > > > best way to do that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > > Thanks, > > > Wendy > > If you've already got MySQL running you can just use it, but with Django > it's often easier to get started with SQLite because there's no permissions > or database issues to deal with and it's very easy to switch to MySQL when > you want to test and deploy an application. > > Alex > > -- > "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to > say it." --Voltaire > "The people's good is the highest law."--Cicero --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
