Question

I’m following a tutorial on Django and I’m suppose to create a folder via Windows Command Prompt (the turorial asks to type the following at C:\):

django-admin.py startproject django_bookmarks

and I should get the following folder with these files:

django_bookmarks/
     __init__.py manage.py settings.py urls.py

I tried at c:\, at c:\Django-1.4.2.

and I get the same following error messages:

“Django-1.4.2 is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file”

Note: Django is properly installed. I made a test on python and it shows Django’s version properly.

How do I create that folder?

Any help will be appreciated.

Answer 1

You may try using the following command (if Python-2.7.X is your interpreter, and if you have not installed Django in a virtualenv):

C:\Python27\Scripts\django-admin.py startproject django_bookmarks

If you have installed Django in a virtualenv, replace the part C:\Python27 by the path to this virtualenv.

If you have installed several versions of Python, Have a look at this SO answer