In this tutorial I will show you how to install django web framework on MacOSX with virtualenv wrapper . for those who don’t know what is django is , well django is web framework based on MVC architecture written in python.
Django is a high-level Python Web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design.
django website have very good documentation on installation process , if you want to install system wide then take a look at that .
anyway let’s start our installation with virtualenv wrapper
what you should know ,
1 just little terminal fu
2 thats all
steps
open your terminal ( from utilities or search in spotlight )
sudo easy_install virtualenv
that will install virtualenv system wide ,
or even better
sudo pip install virtualenv
okay now , virtualenv is installed lets create our project folder
mkdir my_project
now change directory
cd my_project
Now lets initialize virtualenv , it will copy python executable and setup tools etc to your project folder
virtualenv venv
okay , Now lets activate virtualenv
. venv/bin/activate
Now finally lets install djnago
pip install django
after installation
python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())"
you will see installed django version .
something like ..
okay now django installed and ready to use , okay lets create a sample site
django-admin.py startproject mysite
now change directory to my site
cd mysite python manage.py runserver
open browser and point to http://localhost:8000 , you will see default django welcome page
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I hope it was affirmative for you , thank you