Django on Ubuntu

Django | The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines

Settings it up: sudo apt-get install django

Check out the options of the command django-admin

Start s project hemanth@ubuntu:~/django$ django-admin startproject mysite hemanth@ubuntu:~/django$ cd mysite hemanth@ubuntu:~/django$ ls **init**.py manage.py settings.py urls.py This is the basis of the application

manage.py => application we use to RUN certain commands.

setting.py => The default settings file called, settings.py

urls.py => It allows us to describe via a regex where to direct http requests.

Startapp hemanth@ubuntu:~/django/mystie$ ./manage.py startapp myblog hemanth@ubuntu:~/django/mystie$ cd myblog ; ls **init**.py models.py tests.py views.py

init.py => runs when the app is loaded.

models.py => This is where we describe our database structure.

views.py => This is how we describe how our data is shown to the user.

Unlock admin panel In urls.py [ uncommenting ]:

from django.contrib import admin

admin.autodiscover()

(remove the #) and also from the #(r’admin/‘,include(admin.site.urls)),

In settings.py [ INSTALLED_APPS should have 'django.contrib.admin'] : INSTALLED_APPS = (

'django.contrib.auth',
'django.contrib.contenttypes',
'django.contrib.sessions',
'django.contrib.sites',
'django.contrib.messages',
'django.contrib.admin',

)

SyncDB [ Create’s if not present ]:

P.S : The settings.py must have DB detials, for the easy of it let it be sqllite3 DATABASE_ENGINE = ‘sqlite3’ hemanth@ubuntu:~/django/mysite$ ./manage.py syncdb

Start Server hemanth@ubuntu:~/mystie$ ./manage.py runserver Validating models... 0 errors found Django version 1.2 alpha 1 SVN-12205, using settings 'mystie.settings' Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C. Got to http://127.0.0.1:8000/admin

P.S : For people in <3 with Drupal have look at pinax