Question

So I am new to Django and I am going through the tutorials. I tried

django-admin.py startproject mysite

and

python django-admin.py startproject mysite

but only a notepad popped up with the following:

#!C:\Python27\python.exe
from django.core import management

if __name__ == "__main__":
    management.execute_from_command_line()

And still I cannot create the “mysite” directory. I already added the C:\Python27\Lib\site-packages\django\bin to my Path but no avail. What seems to be the problem? I am using Django 1.4.2, Python 2.7, and Windows Vista.

Answer 1

Regardless of the file association (since that is currently just a guess on my part) you could call the absolute path to run it:

python C:\Python27\Scripts\django-admin.py startproject mysite

That should create your project, and from there, you can just work from within the project directory.

You should make sure to add C:\Python27\Scripts to your PATH. You don’t need to add the bin of django.