Minimal Django Project: Part 1 … First Run

Update: Django 1.6+ don’t need any of these steps! it will work out of the box.

The following is the shortest way to create DB backed Django project, it uses SQLite as a backend, which make the setup very easy and fast.

I usually use for testing new Django modules or apps.

**$ django-admin.py startproject mycms**
**$ cd mycms**
**mycms$ chmod +x manage.py **
**mycms$ vi mycms/settings.py **
import os

PROJECT_ROOT = os.path.abspath(os.path.dirname(__name__))
:
DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': './mycms.db',
:
    }
}
:
TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Riyadh'
:
TEMPLATE_DIRS = (
    PROJECT_ROOT + '/templates',
)
INSTALLED_APPS = (
:
    'django.contrib.admin',
:
)
:
**mycms$ vi mycms/urls.py **
# Uncomment the next two lines to enable the admin:
from django.contrib import admin
admin.autodiscover()

urlpatterns = patterns('',
:
    # Uncomment the next line to enable the admin:
    url(r'^admin/', include(admin.site.urls)),
)
**mycms$ ./manage.py syncdb**
:
provide username, email, password for admin
:
**mycms$ ./manage.py runserver**
:
To access it from outside
:
**mycms$ ./manage.py runserver 0.0.0.0:8080**

To access it: Frontpage @ localhost Admin @ localhost

Mac OSX errors You might get “ValueError: unknown locale: UTF-8” error, check [this post on how to fix it.] (/posts/2013/03/fixing-cannot-change-locale-utf-8-error/)

• Django
• Python
• Sqlite