Question

I tried starting a new Django project yesterday but when I did “django-admin.py startproject projectname” I got an error stating: “django-admin.py is not recognized as an internal or external command.” The strange thing is, when I first installed Django, I made a few projects and everything worked fine. But now after going back a few months later it has suddenly stopped working.

I’ve tried looking around for an answer and all I could find is that this typically has to do with the system path settings, however, I know that I have the proper paths set up so I don’t understand what’s happening. Does anybody have any idea what’s going on?

Answer 1

First check the django was installed properly.

import django

EDIT 1

If you got exception, try to uninstall and install django.

i recommend to do this by pip:

$> easy_install pip


$> pip uninstall django
$> pip install django

Then check the file C:\Python26\Scripts\django-admin.py exists.
you may replace c:\python26 by your local python installation path.
if you not found the file, so uninstall and install django, see EDIT 1 above.

then add C:\Python26 and C:\Python26\Scripts to your path. see here

From python documents:

to the current setting for the PATH environment variable, which you will find in the properties window of “My Computer” under the “Advanced” tab. Note that if you have sufficient privilege you might get a choice of installing the settings either for the Current User or for System. The latter is preferred if you want everybody to be able to run Python on the machine.