Working With Django Projects, The Basics

Creating a new project

$ django-admin.py startproject mysite

Define a database connection

Enter database properties in myproject/settings.py, then from the project root:

$ python manage.py migrate

Run the server

$ python manage.py runserver

The server address will be reported in the output of that command, typically http://127.0.0.1:8000/

Add an app

$ python manage.py startapp myapp

• Define some models in myapp/models.py.
• Add the app name to INSTALLED_APPS in mysiet/settings.py.
• Then:

$ python manage.py makemigrations myapp
$ python manage.py migrate

The makemigrations and migrate commands are run anytime there is a change to the models.