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I’ve been thinking about writing a start-to-finish Django tutorial, creating a simple CMS for a hierarchical web site going from installation of Django on a clean system all the way to a CMS that automatically uploads web pages to a remote web server. It will probably be a while before I get started on that (if I ever do) but I got the opportunity to do a clean Django install yesterday on a new iMac.
Out of the box (as this iMac was) Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard) has everything you need to start using Django except Django itself. It has Python 2.5, and it has SQLite 3 for storing data. The only thing I installed on the iMac before installing Django was Smultron, because I wanted a nice GUI text editor for editing the configuration files.
There are three steps to setting up Django: installing it, starting a project, and setting up a database to store your web applications.
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- Log in to your administrative account if you don’t normally work from an administrative account (by default, you do: the first account on Mac OS X is administrative).
- Download “latest official version” of Django (0.96.1 as I write this). It will be a “tar” file.
- Click the file once in your downloads stack to unarchive it (Django-0.96.1.tar).
- Open the terminal (if you don’t have it on your dock, add it to your dock from the Utilities folder in Applications)
- Type “cd ” (that’s “cd” with a space) in the terminal window.
- Drag the folder you created from the tar file (Django-0.96.1) from the stack onto the terminal window.
- Press return in terminal. This moves you into the Django installation folder.
- Type “sudo python setup.py install”. It will ask for your administrative password when you press return.
At this point, Django is mostly installed, but you do need to cover for a broken installation process:
- In the downloads stack, open the Django-0.96.1 folder, go into django, contrib, and then admin.
- Open a new Finder Window and go into your hard drive, Library, Python, 2.5, site-packages, django, contrib, and admin.
- Drag media and templates from the first folder to the second folder.
Django is now installed. You can leave your administrative account and go to the account you normally use if it is different from your administrative account.
Start a project in Django
A project in Django can contain many web applications.
- Open your Documents folder.
- Make a new folder; call it something like “Django Projects”.
- Open the terminal if it isn’t still open.
- Type “cd ” (again, “cd” with a trailing space).
- Drag the folder you just created into the terminal.
- Press return in the terminal window.
- Type “django-admin.py startproject CMS”.
- Look in the Django Projects folder for the newly created CMS folder.
You now have a Django project created. You can now tell Django to start a web server, and you can view that web server in Safari.
- In the same terminal window, type “cd CMS”.
- Type “python manage.py runserver”.
- Go into Safari (or any web browser) and go to the URL “http://localhost:8000/”
- It should now say “It worked!” and congratulate you.
You might want to bookmark this page. Try loading it a couple of times and watch the terminal: every time you load the page, you’ll see a corresponding line added to the terminal. This will become very useful once you start creating web applications.
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Set up a database for Django
Django can use several databases, and if you’re familiar with one of the ones it uses, go ahead and set it up. But if not, you can use the SQLite database software built in to Mac OS X.
- In your Project directory, find “settings.py” and open it in Smultron (or any text editor).
- In between the single quotes after DATABASE_ENGINE, type “sqlite3”. It should look like “DATABASE_ENGINE = 'sqlite3'”.
- In between the single quotes after DATABASE_NAME, type “MyCMS.sqlite3”. It should look like “DATABASE_NAME = 'MyCMS.sqlite3'”.
- Open a new window in the terminal, and cd to your CMS folder (type “cd ” and drag the CMS folder onto the terminal).
- Type “python manage.py syncdb”.
- Type “yes” to create a superuser.
- Type a username (it will default to your username on your Mac, which is fine).
- Type an e-mail address.
- Choose a password and remember it!
- In the settings.py file, towards the end, look for a line that says “INSTALLED_APPS”.
- Directly below “django.contrib.sites”, add a line that looks the same except that it will be “'django.contrib.admin',”. That section should now look like: [toggle code]
- INSTALLED_APPS = (
- 'django.contrib.auth',
- 'django.contrib.contenttypes',
- 'django.contrib.sessions',
- 'django.contrib.sites',
- 'django.contrib.admin',
- )
- INSTALLED_APPS = (
- Type “python manage.py syncdb” in the terminal again.
- Open urls.py in Smultron and remove the hash mark in front of the line that “includes” django.contrib.admin.urls.
This sets up the database for you and creates an authorization database for you to use. Go to “http://localhost:8000/admin/” and click on Users. You will see the admin user you created as part of this step.
If you look in the CMS folder of your Django Projects folder you’ll see the newly-created “MyCMS.sqlite3” database file. Once you start using Django, this is where all of your data will be stored, so you’ll want to back this file up regularly.
Playing around
You should now be able to follow along with the samples in various places on the web (such as the Django web site itself and Jeff Croft’s Django for non-programmers). Remember that you can use CONTROL-C in the terminal that has runserver running to quit your project. Whenever you want to start the project up again, go back to that folder in terminal and type the “runserver” command in the “start a project” section above.
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Install Python¶
Django is a Python Web framework. See What Python version can I use with Django? fordetails.
Get the latest version of Python at https://www.python.org/downloads/ or withyour operating system’s package manager.
Python on Windows
If you are just starting with Django and using Windows, you may findHow to install Django on Windows useful.
Install Apache and mod_wsgi
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If you just want to experiment with Django, skip ahead to the nextsection; Django includes a lightweight web server you can use fortesting, so you won’t need to set up Apache until you’re ready todeploy Django in production.
If you want to use Django on a production site, use Apache withmod_wsgi. mod_wsgi operates in one of two modes: embeddedmode or daemon mode. In embedded mode, mod_wsgi is similar tomod_perl – it embeds Python within Apache and loads Python code intomemory when the server starts. Code stays in memory throughout thelife of an Apache process, which leads to significant performancegains over other server arrangements. In daemon mode, mod_wsgi spawnsan independent daemon process that handles requests. The daemonprocess can run as a different user than the Web server, possiblyleading to improved security. The daemon process can be restartedwithout restarting the entire Apache Web server, possibly makingrefreshing your codebase more seamless. Consult the mod_wsgidocumentation to determine which mode is right for your setup. Makesure you have Apache installed with the mod_wsgi module activated.Django will work with any version of Apache that supports mod_wsgi.
See How to use Django with mod_wsgifor information on how to configure mod_wsgi once you have itinstalled.
If you can’t use mod_wsgi for some reason, fear not: Django supports many otherdeployment options. One is uWSGI; it worksvery well with nginx. Additionally, Django follows the WSGI spec(PEP 3333), which allows it to run on a variety of server platforms.
Get your database running¶
If you plan to use Django’s database API functionality, you’ll need to makesure a database server is running. Django supports many different databaseservers and is officially supported with PostgreSQL, MariaDB, MySQL, Oracleand SQLite.
If you are developing a small project or something you don’t plan to deploy ina production environment, SQLite is generally the best option as it doesn’trequire running a separate server. However, SQLite has many differences fromother databases, so if you are working on something substantial, it’srecommended to develop with the same database that you plan on using inproduction.
In addition to the officially supported databases, there are backendsprovided by 3rd parties that allow you to use otherdatabases with Django.
In addition to a database backend, you’ll need to make sure your Pythondatabase bindings are installed.
- If you’re using PostgreSQL, you’ll need the psycopg2 package. Refer to thePostgreSQL notes for further details.
- If you’re using MySQL or MariaDB, you’ll need a DB API driver like
mysqlclient
. See notes for the MySQLbackend for details. - If you’re using SQLite you might want to read the SQLite backend notes.
- If you’re using Oracle, you’ll need a copy of cx_Oracle, but pleaseread the notes for the Oracle backend for detailsregarding supported versions of both Oracle and
cx_Oracle
. - If you’re using an unofficial 3rd party backend, please consult thedocumentation provided for any additional requirements.
If you plan to use Django’s
manage.pymigrate
command to automaticallycreate database tables for your models (after first installing Django andcreating a project), you’ll need to ensure that Django has permission to createand alter tables in the database you’re using; if you plan to manually createthe tables, you can grant Django SELECT
, INSERT
, UPDATE
andDELETE
permissions. After creating a database user with these permissions,you’ll specify the details in your project’s settings file, seeDATABASES
for details.If you’re using Django’s testing framework to testdatabase queries, Django will need permission to create a test database.
Install the Django code¶
Installation instructions are slightly different depending on whether you’reinstalling a distribution-specific package, downloading the latest officialrelease, or fetching the latest development version.
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Installing an official release with pip
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This is the recommended way to install Django.
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- Install pip. The easiest is to use the standalone pip installer. If yourdistribution already has
pip
installed, you might need to update it ifit’s outdated. If it’s outdated, you’ll know because installation won’twork. - Take a look at venv. This tool providesisolated Python environments, which are more practical than installingpackages systemwide. It also allows installing packages withoutadministrator privileges. The contributing tutorial walks through how to create a virtual environment.
- After you’ve created and activated a virtual environment, enter the command:
Installing a distribution-specific package¶
Check the distribution specific notes to see ifyour platform/distribution provides official Django packages/installers.Distribution-provided packages will typically allow for automatic installationof dependencies and supported upgrade paths; however, these packages will rarelycontain the latest release of Django.
Installing the development version¶
Tracking Django development
If you decide to use the latest development version of Django,you’ll want to pay close attention to the development timeline,and you’ll want to keep an eye on the release notes for theupcoming release. This will help you stayon top of any new features you might want to use, as well as any changesyou’ll need to make to your code when updating your copy of Django.(For stable releases, any necessary changes are documented in therelease notes.)
If you’d like to be able to update your Django code occasionally with thelatest bug fixes and improvements, follow these instructions:
- Make sure that you have Git installed and that you can run its commandsfrom a shell. (Enter
githelp
at a shell prompt to test this.) - Check out Django’s main development branch like so:This will create a directory
django
in your current directory. - Make sure that the Python interpreter can load Django’s code. The mostconvenient way to do this is to use a virtual environment and pip. Thecontributing tutorial walks through how tocreate a virtual environment.
- After setting up and activating the virtual environment, run the followingcommand:This will make Django’s code importable, and will also make the
django-admin
utility command available. In other words, you’re allset!
When you want to update your copy of the Django source code, run the command
gitpull
from within the django
directory. When you do this, Git willdownload any changes.