Prepare the Django Project

by John Samuel Anderson — last modified Jul 02, 2010 02:15 PM
Configure a new django project and server.

Setup a fresh Django project

  1. Install Django.  (This is beyond the scope of this document.)
  2. Create a new Django project. 
    django-admin.py startproject mydjangoproject
    cd mydjangoproject

    3. The rest of these commands happen inside the "mydjangoproject" Django project directory.

  3. Configure the settings.py file to point to the PostgreSQL database.
    DATABASE_ENGINE = 'postgresql_psycopg2'  # 'postgresql_psycopg2', 'postgresql', 'mysql', 'sqlite3' or 'oracle'.
DATABASE_NAME = 'mydatabase'             # Or path to database file if using sqlite3.
DATABASE_USER = 'myuseraccount'          # Not used with sqlite3.
DATABASE_PASSWORD = 'mypassword'         # Not used with sqlite3.
  4. Do Django's syncdb so your PostgreSQL database has the Django minimum tables. 
    python manage.py syncdb