This is just a brief tutorial I wrote for myself without the intention of releasing, but I figure if I can help just 1 person get started, then why keep it to myself.
Again, not to be passed off as anything more then notes I wrote one afternoon for my own understanding on a Windows machine. Hope this helps someone. Comments ARE welcome. --- When creating a project you’ll want to link it to a database. So we'll, install Python, then Django, then the database. Create the project, setup the database, then launch the development server. For ease we’ll go with SQLite. Django requires Python 2.3 or higher. Install Python. When the installation is complete, add Python to the system path so that it can be accessed from the command prompt. To do this access “Control Panel > System > Advanced > Environment Variables”. Select the “path” from the “System Variables” section and append the Python installation directory. Download and extract Django to the “C:\”. Then in the command prompt, “cd” to the extracted directory. To install Django run “(Django Directory) python setup.py install” or to manually install, copy the Django folder to the Lib > site-packages directory inside the Python directory. The last step to install, copy django-admin.py from “(Django Directory) > django > bin” to either c:\ or the Python directory. After completed you will want to test the installation by running “c: \>python django-admin.py --version”. Django supports many database systems like MySQL, PostgreSQL, and SQLite. Django has a database layer, which will interact with any supported & selected database. Python 2.5 or later comes with the SQLite module named, “sqlite3”. SQLite stores the database in a single file. To use MySQL you must install the MySQL driver, which is titled “MySQLdb”. Django comes with its own preconfigured webserver but does support Apache and Lighttpd. Now, to create a new project, run “django-admin.py startproject (project title)”. This command will create a folder named after the project title you entered. Inside this folder will be 4 files: __init__.py, manage.py, settings.py and urls.py. The file functions are as follows: i. __init__.py: This file tells python to treat this folder as a package. ii. manage.py: This is the project admin file, similar to django- admin.py. So similar in fact they share the same code. iii. settings.py: The main configuration file. Includes your database settings, site language and Django features as well as more advanced functions. iv. urls.py: Configuration file. Maps the URLs with the Python functions that handle them. Open settings.py and set the database with “DATABASE_ENGINE”. For SQLite enter “sqlite3”. Next, name the database with “DATABASE_NAME”. Name it after your project with “db” at the end. Example: “bookmarksdb”. Now save your file. Almost done. Cd into the project directory then tell Django to create tables for the database with the command “python manage.py syncdb”. Create your Superuser account. This process will create the file titled after the database name. This file holds the application data. Now run the development server with “python manage.py runserver”. You can also change the default port from 8000 by appending your desired port to the command. Open your browser to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Done. ---
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