Question

Evening,

Trying to follow the Django tutorial, as seen here, https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/intro/tutorial01/

I run the command to build start my project but I get a ‘flat’ folder structure.

nick@nick~/foo: ls
nick@nick~/foo: 

I start with an empty dir, and then run the start project command.

nick@nick~/foo: django-admin.py startproject mysite
nick@nick~/foo: ls
mysite

so it’s not flat, but the manage file is not here…. like the tutorial.

nick@nick~/foo: cd mysite/
nick@nick~/foo/mysite: ls
__init__.py manage.py   settings.py urls.py
nick@nick~/foo/mysite: django-admin.py --version
1.3.1

So, I am using the latest, but my manage is not outside the mysite folder….

Anyone know what im doing wrong here, or whats going on!

Answer 1

No, you’re seeing a flat structure inside the mysite directory, exactly as the warning box on the tutorial you read indicates.

This is, of course, because as you show, you’re not using the development version – you’re using version 1.3.x. So, read the 1.3 tutorial instead.