Setting up a django website calls for (though not always):
- django installation
- configuring Apache
- mod_wsgi
- others like database servers, static file server etc
Now if you are developing a small scale website, you may not want to go the Apache, mod_wsgi way.. Django helps here by providing a development web server, so that you can get your website up and running rapidly.
This blog talks about setting django website on Ubuntu 10.04:
Step1: Get python-pip
buntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo apt-get install python-pip Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libtext-glob-perl libcompress-bzip2-perl libparams-util-perl libfile-chmod-perl libdata-compare-perl libfile-pushd-perl libfile-which-perl libcpan-inject-perl libfile-find-rule-perl libcpan-checksums-perl libnumber-compare-perl Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following extra packages will be installed: python-setuptools The following NEW packages will be installed: python-pip python-setuptools 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 186 not upgraded. Need to get 262kB of archives. After this operation, 1,192kB of additional disk space will be used. Do you want to continue [Y/n]? Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid/main python-setuptools 0.6.10-4ubuntu1 [213kB] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ lucid-updates/universe python-pip 0.3.1-1ubuntu2.1 [49.8kB] Fetched 262kB in 5s (50.6kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package python-setuptools. (Reading database ... 124327 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking python-setuptools (from .../python-setuptools_0.6.10-4ubuntu1_all.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package python-pip. Unpacking python-pip (from .../python-pip_0.3.1-1ubuntu2.1_all.deb) ... Processing triggers for man-db ... Setting up python-setuptools (0.6.10-4ubuntu1) ... Processing triggers for python-central ... Setting up python-pip (0.3.1-1ubuntu2.1) ...
Step 2: Install django
buntu@ubuntu:~$ sudo pip install django Downloading/unpacking django Downloading Django-1.4.1.tar.gz (7.7Mb): 7.7Mb downloaded Running setup.py egg_info for package django Installing collected packages: django Running setup.py install for django changing mode of build/scripts-2.6/django-admin.py from 644 to 755 changing mode of /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py to 755 Successfully installed django
Step 3: Check for django installation
buntu@ubuntu:~$ python -c "import django; print(django.get_version())" 1.4.1
Step 4: Create a project site
buntu@ubuntu:~$ django-admin.py startproject mysite buntu@ubuntu:~$ tree mysite mysite |-- manage.py `-- mysite |-- __init__.py |-- settings.py |-- urls.py `-- wsgi.py 1 directory, 5 files
Step 5: Start django development server
buntu@ubuntu:~$ cd mysite buntu@ubuntu:~/mysite$ python manage.py runserver Validating models... 0 errors found Django version 1.4.1, using settings 'mysite.settings' Development server is running at http://127.0.0.1:8000/ Quit the server with CONTROL-C.
Step 6: Browse to http://127.0.0.1:8000/ home page
[09/Oct/2012 01:42:52] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 1957
