This repository complements a series of blog posts on https://consideratecode.com:
- Getting to know your Users - User Authentication with Django's built-in views
- Don’t repeat Yourself – Understanding Django Template Inheritance
This repository is based on the Django project you build in the official
Django tutorial: the mysite project with the polls app.
This project requires Python 3.4 or higher and Django 2.0.
The recommended way to install this project is to use Pipenv. The included Pipfile will set up a virtual environment with Python 3.6.x and Django 2.0.x, the latest versions as of this writing.
$ pipenv install
$ pipenv shell
Alternatively you can use the provided requirements.txt file to install Django with pip.
$ pip install -r requirements.txt
Then we have to create a database by running the migrations. By default, the project uses a file-based SQLite database. Change into the directory mysite and use the migrate management command.
$ cd mysite
$ python manage.py migrate
Next, create a superuser to access the built-in admin.
$ python manage.py createsuperuser --username daniel
Email address: daniel@consideratecode.com
Password:
Password (again):
Superuser created successfully.
You can, of course, use whatever username, email and password you want.
Now you are ready to start the application:
$ python manage.py runserver
Visit http://localhost:8000/admin/ and check if you can log in.
Note: the application does not have a "home page". If you visit http://localhost:8000/, you will get an 404 Page Not Found error message and a list of URL patterns Django tried. This is expected at this stage.
Here are some error messages you might encounter.
File "manage.py", line 14
) from exc
^
SyntaxError: invalid syntax
You are trying to run manage.py with an incompatible version of Python. Use at least Python 3.4.
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 8, in <module>
from django.core.management import execute_from_command_line
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'django'
The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "manage.py", line 14, in <module>
) from exc
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?
The error message says it all: you either haven't installed Django yet or you have installed it in a virtual environment.
If you used pipenv install to install it, you must run pipenv shell everytime you open a new console.
Daniel Hepper daniel@consideratecode.com
Modified BSD License. For the full terms, see LICENSE.
The code in this repository is based on the Django tutorial, also released under the Modified BSD License as part of Django by the Django Software Foundation and individual contributors.
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