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Manohar
Manohar

Reputation: 11

How to run a django project without manage.py

Basically I downloaded django project from SCM, Usually I run the project with with these steps

  1. git clone repository
  2. extract
  3. change directory to project folder
  4. python manage.py runserver

But this project does not contains manage.py , how to run this project in my local machine???

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Upvotes: 1

Views: 6664

Answers (4)

Junior Gantin
Junior Gantin

Reputation: 2192

First create a virtual environment and install Django. Now you have django-admin.py available in your system.
django-admin is Django’s command-line utility for administrative tasks.

$ django-admin startproject name [directory] create a Django app directory structure for the given app name in the current directory or the given destination.

You can provide the path to a directory with a custom app template file or a path to a compressed file (.tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .tgz, .tbz, .zip) containing the app template files.

$ django-admin startproject --template=/Users/jezdez/Code/my_app_template myapp


Django will also accept URLs (http, https, ftp) to compressed archives with the app template files, downloading and extracting them on the fly.

For example, taking advantage of GitHub’s feature (or other SCM) to expose repositories as zip files, you can use a URL like:

$ django-admin startproject --template=https://github.com/githubuser/django-app-template/archive/master.zip myapp
$ cd my_proj
$ touch manage.py

Put this content into manage.py like @Sayse said:

    #!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys

if __name__ == "__main__":
    # CHANGED manage.py will use development settings by
    # default. Change the DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE environment variable
    # for using the environment specific settings file.
    os.environ.setdefault("DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE", "{{ project_name }}.settings.development")

    from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line

execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

Install dependencies and run migrations.

$ pip install -r requirements.txt
$ python manage.py migrate
$ python manage.py runserver

Hope I help!

Upvotes: 0

Daniel Roseman
Daniel Roseman

Reputation: 599610

Most likely, this is not supposed to be a complete project, but a plugin application. You should create your own project in the normal way with django-admin.py startproject and add the downloaded app to INSTALLED_APPS.

Upvotes: 5

Harsh
Harsh

Reputation: 253

You can use uwsgi to run a django project.

First install uwsgi using:

pip install uWSGI

Go to project folder and enter this in terminal:

# Replace server with whatever is your project name
uwsgi --http :8000 --module Server.wsgi

Upvotes: 2

Sayse
Sayse

Reputation: 43300

You'll have to create a manage.py file manually if you wanted to use its commands in the same way you're accustomed to. You can modify django's manage.py template to include your project's settings.

#!/usr/bin/env python
import os
import sys

if __name__ == '__main__':
    os.environ.setdefault('DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE', '{{ project_name }}.settings')
    try:
        from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
    except ImportError as exc:
        raise ImportError(
            "Couldn't import Django. Are you sure it's installed and "
            "available on your PYTHONPATH environment variable? Did you "
            "forget to activate a virtual environment?"
        ) from exc
    execute_from_command_line(sys.argv)

Upvotes: 5

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