Reputation: 16558

django-admin.py startproject is not working

after installing django I tried django-admin.py startproject mysite and that worked, then I got a simple site working and I wanted to start on something real, so I tried django-admin.py startproject newsite and nothing happened. Whenever I try the command nothing happens now.. any idea what is wrong?

Upvotes: 24

Answers (19)

Nandini Ashok Tuptewar

Reputation: 324

Try for this command:

django-admin startproject mysite

instead of django-admin.py startproject mysite.

Upvotes: 7

Gastón Gaitan

Reputation: 1

I solved it by just closing and reopening VS code.

It seems it was a variable path issue. As always, VS code cannot read it unless it is closed and re-opened.

Hope it can help someone.

Upvotes: 0

Rida Qureshi

Reputation: 1

the command "django startproject first" was not working for me so I used the command : python -m django startproject first this command worked for me on windows

Upvotes: -1

Jainab Khatri

Reputation: 1

python -m django startproject [Appname]

This should work.

Upvotes: 0

Malik4033

Reputation: 11

My project made the ".py" file into a ".exe" file. So instead of: "django-admin.py startproject"

I needed to do

> django-admin.exe startproject

It worked for me.

Upvotes: 0

Dosanz Pillay

Reputation: 1

If you have pip installed in that environment you can always download the Django in the virtual environment and use it to start your project like I did instead of downloading it from web or changing environment variables.

Upvotes: 0

spider_Malaya

Reputation: 13

I have a easy solution for this. normally download the django-admin file from the web the add it to the python\script folder then add the C:\python\script to the environment variable then try the command i.e django-admin startproject

Upvotes: 0

itsavy

Reputation: 410

For me worked without .py extension, since there was .exe by that name in my windows:

C:\Python27\Scripts\django-admin startproject HelloWorld

Upvotes: 6

anand24

Reputation: 321

Try this solution:

1) Select a .py file and right click and select Open with...
2) Here select Python Launcher for Windows

This solution is provided for Windows OS

Upvotes: 0

Vishant Bothra

Reputation: 1

Even I faced the same problem. I even tried adding the directory to Environmental variables but it was not working, so I had to use python -m django for it, but it didn't satisfy me, so I did a tricky thing.

Instead of adding the directory to Environmental variables, I copied the installed package and pasted it to the first directory (default directory) in environmental variable and it started working.

Upvotes: 0

user3562771

Reputation:

after years I have to answer this question because the answer is changed for WINDOWS now

python C:\Path\To\Virtualenv\Scripts\django-admin.exe startproject <project_name>

you can use .exe for windows in Scripts folder

Upvotes: 1

Zeppie84

Reputation: 31

If everything is installed properly, when you open the command prompt, navigate to the desktop folder with

cd C:\Users\YOURNAME\Desktop

then type

django-admin startproject YOURPROJECTNAME

The project should appear on your desktop.

If you didn't navigate to your desktop folder and run the command there, your project could be placed in the windows\system32 folder on the C drive.

Upvotes: 3

Shishir

Reputation: 1

Try out this way.

1> Look where your python is installed if cannot find it in C:/ Python().

$ python
Python 2.6.6 (r266:84297, Aug 24 2010, 18:13:38) [MSC v.1500 64 bit (AMD64)] on win32
Type "help", "copyright", "credits" or "license" for more information.
>>> import sys
>>> sys.executable
'c:\\Python26\\python.exe'
>>> sys.exec_prefix
'c:\\Python26'
>>>
>>> print '\n'.join(sys.path)

c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\setuptools-0.6c11-py2.6.egg
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\nose-1.0.0-py2.6.egg
C:\Windows\system32\python26.zip
c:\Python26\DLLs
c:\Python26\lib
c:\Python26\lib\plat-win
c:\Python26\lib\lib-tk
c:\Python26
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\win32\lib
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\Pythonwin
c:\Python26\lib\site-packages\wx-2.8-msw-unicode

2> After that move into Scripts folder. There you may find django-admin.py. Now copy full path of that file.

3>Now run this command

python path of the file startproject name of Project

eg. python C:\Users\UserName\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python35-32\Scripts\django-admin.py startproject mysite

hope this will work.

Upvotes: 0

Aminah Nuraini

Reputation: 19206

Try this instead! It also works inside virtualenv

python "C:\Python27\Scripts\django-admin.py" startproject test2

Upvotes: 1

DustySack

Reputation: 130

I'm on a Mac and had a similar problem after installing with pip3. I reinstalled and it corrected the error. You can try going to the #django irc channel at irc.freenodes

Upvotes: 0

Monty

Reputation: 11

Go on to c:/python**/Scripts/ you must find django-admin.py there that fixes your problem use the absolute path.

Upvotes: 1

Ivan Juarez

Reputation: 1463

If you are running Windows for a quick fix you can create a batch file with the following values:

@echo off
@echo "Enter Proyect name"
set /p proj_name=
set building="Building django project %proj_name%"
@echo %building%
python c:/Python27/Scripts/django-admin.py startproject %proj_name%
pause

I named the file "django.bat" and to use it you can just simply add a copy in the directory you want to start the project, execute the file and it will ask you for a project name, provide one and then Voila!!

Hope this helps.

Upvotes: 10

user699464

Reputation: 766

For anyone stumbling across this now, this problem is a result of Windows not obeying the #!C:\Path\To\Virtualenv\Scripts\Python.exe hashbang at the top of django-admin.py, and therefore running it with the wrong python.exe (evidently a virtualenv bug).

However, with virtualenv active, you can use the following command, which will result in the correct python being used, and everything being ok:

python C:\Path\To\Virtualenv\Scripts\django-admin.py startproject <project_name>

Upvotes: 75

ars

Reputation: 123568

Do you have a DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable set (presumably from the mysite project)? If so, django thinks you're working on the old project and doesn't give you the startproject option. Try unsetting the environment variable and trying again.

Upvotes: 7

django-admin.py startproject is not working

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