widgets Start Django Project


Activate the virtual environment (in virtual environment directory)

django-admin startproject myapp

Write “ls” then you can see myapp folder should be there. Go to the inside my app folder. There you will see myapp folder and manage.py . manage.py file for run main tasks, synchronize database and django server. Lets go the inside myapp folder.

-----  settings.py
-----  urls.py
-----  wsgi.py
-----  __init__.py

urls.py : Urls for our django applications.
wsgi.py: Web server gateway interface.
__init__.py: Make current directory as a module
setting.py: All necessary configurations will be there.

Open the settings.py and look there. There is important parameters you can edit. For example Installed Apps: If you create new application like shop, cart … you should put information there. Root Urlconf: Url configuration root path.

After install django-admin, lets make a database migration. Go to the location that contain manage.py file. Ans use command:

python manage.py migrate

After the migrate you will see the there is db.sqlite3 file.

Run the server:

python .\manage.py runserver

# There will be url 
# Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/

After that go to the url and you will see the django homepage.