Django Project Setup

DJANGO

Django is a high-level Python Web-Development framework. In this post, we will learn how to set up our first Django project with MySql database.

Contents

1. Virtual Environment
2. Install Django
3. MySql Setup 
4. Create Application
5. Other Setting 

Virtual Environment 

Virtual Environment is an extremely useful tool that helps us to keep our coding environment tidy on our computer. Let's create the virtual environment.
Create a directory for your project

mkdir Django

cd Django

Install a virtual environment

python3 -m venv your_virtual_env_name

Working with the virtual environment

source your_virtual_env_name/bin/activate

Install Django

Before installing Django make sure that you are inside your virtual environment.

your_virtual_env_name$

Install Django

pip install django~=1.11.0

Create Project

django-admin startproject your_site_name .

MySql Set Up

Open your_site_name/setting.py and find DATABASES and replace code inside this with

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.mysql',
        'NAME': 'your_db_name',
        'USER': 'root',
        'PASSWORD': 'your_mysql_db_password',
        'HOST': 'localhost',
        'PORT': '3306',
    }
}

Create a database in MySQL with the same name as in setting.py above and run the below command

python manage.py makemigrations

python manage.py migrate

Run Server

python manage.py runserver

Create Application

python manage.py startapp app_name

you also need to tell Django that it should use it. We do that in the setting.py file. Find INSTALLED_APPS and add your application name in it.

INSTALLED_APPS = [
    'django.contrib.admin',
    'django.contrib.auth',
    'django.contrib.contenttypes',
    'django.contrib.sessions',
    'django.contrib.messages',
    'django.contrib.staticfiles',
    'your_application_name',
]

Other Setting

Static File Setting

STATIC_URL = '/static/'
STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')

Media File Setting

MEDIA_ROOT  = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'media')
MEDIA_URL = '/media/'

Time Zone Setting

TIME_ZONE = 'Asia/Kolkata'

Language Setting

LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'

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