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Django – some frequently used commands

September 20, 2014 Denis Kutlubaev Leave a comment

While working with Django you use a lot of commands. I decided to create a list of commands for myself to make my development a little faster.

Quick links to tutorials:

My project folder is this: ~/Documents/common-app-server/app_server

My project name is: tokens

Creating virtual environment:

$ virtualenv env

1	$ virtualenv env

Activating virtual environment:

$ source env/bin/activate

1	$ source env/bin/activate

Installing Django on virtual environment:

$ pip install Django

1	$ pip install Django

Django version:

$ python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"

1	$ python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"

Starting a project:

$ django-admin.py startproject tutorial

1	$ django-admin.py startproject tutorial

Creating Django application:

(env)~/Documents/common-app-server/app_server: $ ./manage.py startapp multiverse

1	(env)~/Documents/common-app-server/app_server: $ ./manage.py startapp multiverse

Syncing database for the first time:

python manage.py syncdb

1	python manage.py syncdb

Creating migrations:

$ ./manage.py makemigrations tokens

1	$ ./manage.py makemigrations tokens

Looking at migrations:

$ ./manage.py sqlmigrate tokens 0001

1	$ ./manage.py sqlmigrate tokens 0001

Starting migrations:

$ ./manage.py migrate

1	$ ./manage.py migrate

Entering sqlite mode:

(env)~/Documents/common-app-server/app_server: $ ./manage.py dbshell

1	(env)~/Documents/common-app-server/app_server: $ ./manage.py dbshell

Recreating database:
1. Delete migrations folder
2. Use this command to clear database:

$ ./manage.py sqlclear tokens| ./manage.py dbshell

1	$ ./manage.py sqlclear tokens\| ./manage.py dbshell

3. Create and run migrations

Running a local server:

$ ./manage.py runserver

1	$ ./manage.py runserver

Creating admin user:

$ ./manage.py createsuperuser

1	$ ./manage.py createsuperuser

App view:

http://localhost:8000/tokens/

1	http://localhost:8000/tokens/

Admin view:

http://localhost:8000/admin/

1	http://localhost:8000/admin/

Installing DjangoRestFramework:

$pip install djangorestframework

1	$pip install djangorestframework

Web Development

Running Django project on Apache production server with mod_wsgi

September 19, 2014 Denis Kutlubaev Leave a comment

This is official tutorial. But it didn’t work for me for 100 %. But there is some useful information on wsgi and daemon process that should be created.

There is a good tutorial, that I followed and it actually works. But I decided to write my own post with instructions for my personal project:

First we enter the production server via SSL and create a virtual environment there:

virtualenv env

1	virtualenv env

Then we activate it:

source env/bin/activate

1	source env/bin/activate

Check the Django version. It must be the same as in your local server:

python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"

1	python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"

Save somewhere a path to a Django project:

/root/www/den.ladby.ru/public/common-app-server/app_server

1	/root/www/den.ladby.ru/public/common-app-server/app_server

Your path will be different.

This is an example of a sites-available/*.conf file setting to run Django with WSGI:

Here app_server is the name of my Django project or you can name it a site. But in my case it is not site but server for a mobile application.

Python and Django version on server and virtual environment may be different. You should do everything inside virtual environments with the same versions on local and production servers.

Web Development

Installing Django on Mac

September 17, 2014 Denis Kutlubaev Leave a comment

First you should install Python and Pip:

$ brew install python

1	$ brew install python

Then you install virtual environments:

$ sudo pip install virtualenv

1	$ sudo pip install virtualenv

And activate one virtual environment:

$ virtualenv my_virtualenv

1	$ virtualenv my_virtualenv

$ source my_virtualenv/bin/activate

1	$ source my_virtualenv/bin/activate

Then you install Django using pip in that virtual environment. Don’t use sudo, since if you use it, then you will install Django not in virtual environment but in common environment.

$ pip install Django

1	$ pip install Django

Now you can start creating Django projects using this tutorial.

To look at a version of installed Django use this:

$ python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"

1	$ python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"

To create a project:

$ django-admin.py startproject mysite

1	$ django-admin.py startproject mysite

To activate database:

$ python manage.py migrate

1	$ python manage.py migrate

To run a server:

$ python manage.py runserver

1	$ python manage.py runserver

To open your first project on Django:

http://localhost:8000/

1	http://localhost:8000/

Alwawee

Tag Archives: Django

Django – some frequently used commands

Running Django project on Apache production server with mod_wsgi

Installing Django on Mac

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