Installing Django on Mac

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First you should install Python and Pip:

$ brew install python

Then you install virtual environments:

$ sudo pip install virtualenv

And activate one virtual environment:

$ virtualenv my_virtualenv
$ 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

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())"

To create a project:

$ django-admin.py startproject mysite

To activate database:

$ python manage.py migrate

To run a server:

$ python manage.py runserver

To open your first project on Django:

http://localhost:8000/

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