• Install virtual environment

• Create virtual env.

• Activate virtual env

• Install Django -

  pip install Django==1.6

• django-admin.py startproject mywebapp

  • this will create the structure, you can rename the app name if you want.

• step in to mywebapp directory, and run following command -

  python manage.py runserver 8002

  It should give you instruction to run the app. run 127.0.0.1:8002

• Now time to setup the db and models

  • you can change the settings ‘DATABASE’ based on what databse you are planning to use. By default everything should be set for sqlite3
  • to setup the base db with system tabels (tables which is needed to run django site and certain basic operations) you will need to run the migration.
  • In 1.7 migrate will be native command, if your are using >=1.6 then first you will need to install south. pip install south

  to crate table run following command - python manage.py syncdb It should create tables and ask you to create one account, you can leave everything blank except password.

• Now its time to create first app, lets call it post

  python manage.py startapp post

• Add the db fields you want in models.py

• to create the corresponding db you will need to again run

  python manage.py syncdb This will create required tables from the models.py