A few more important things to note: Your projects shouldn't live within your virtualenv directory. You can create projects and virtualenvs with the same name (I often do), but it's not mandatory.
So here's an example setup ~/virtual/djangotrunk ~/virtual/socialwebzone ~/projects/socialwebzone ~/projects/polls ~/projects/csvimporter The projects listed can run in any of the virtual environments, although their behavior would probably vary (for example, if you have django 1.1 in ~/virtual/socialwebzone). What you *must do* is customize the PYTHONPATH variable upon activating an environment. This can be done in many ways. For example, by manually editing the activate script[1] in each virtualenv. Or, if using virtualenvwrapper[2], by creating a postactivate hook script[3]. This is where having the same name for a project and virtualenv can come in handy, because then you can programatically add ~/projects/<virtualenvname> to the PYTHONPATH. Cheers, André Terra [1] example activate script on windows (not perfect): http://dpaste.com/hold/564313/ [2] http://www.doughellmann.com/docs/virtualenvwrapper/index.html [3] http://www.doughellmann.com/docs/virtualenvwrapper/scripts.html#postactivate On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 7:18 AM, DrBloodmoney <drbloodmo...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 3:31 AM, i...@webbricks.co.uk > <i...@webbricks.co.uk> wrote: > > oh yeah > > > http://www.saltycrane.com/blog/2009/05/notes-using-pip-and-virtualenv-django/ > > > > that page is my goto reference on building a virtualenv, you might > > have already found it, but if not... > > > > On Jul 5, 10:28 pm, Jeremy <jeremycran...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> AHHH, that makes a little more sense. I'm trying to install apps from > >> Github. Things like Pinax, and different individual blogging apps so > >> that I can "plug" them into one Django project to give it multiple > >> bits of social functionality. Obviously I'm having a lot of trouble > >> (some of it being that it sounds like I don't even know what I'm > >> saying). I've tried to install these apps through PIP and other forms > >> on Dreamhost, but it keeps saying that I don't have permission. The > >> way that I believed to get around this is to set up virtualenv on my > >> shared server space, and create the project inside of that, correct? > >> But if I do this, how can I view the project that I creating live? > >> > >> Again, if this all sounds foolish, keep in mind I'm incredibly new to > >> all these concepts and my not understand them enough. I've been > >> looking for someone locally to give me some Django lessons, but I keep > >> coming up dry. > >> > >> Let me know if anyone can assist me. Thanks guys. > >> > > The two most important things to concern yourself with regarding > starting developing with virtualenv (which is a must): > > - source /path/to/venv/bin/activate: this command tells the shell > (bash, zsh, etc) to use the python interpreter located at > /path/to/venv/bin/python instead of the system python interpreter (eg. > /usr/bin/python) > > - the pythonpath for your virtualenv is going to be > /path/to/venv/lib/python/site-packages. I usually maintain a separate > directory containing packages I need (either at ~/libraries for global > libraries, third-party apps, etc on my dev box) and > /path/to/venv/libraries on production boxes. Then I symlink python > modules that I need to the /path/to/venv/lib/python/site-packages > directory. Then they'll be on your PYTHONPATH. > > The above applies to developing on a *nix box. If you are developing > on windows, stop what you are doing and install virtualbox and ubuntu > or go fully over to a *nix box. You'll appreciate it this. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Django users" group. > To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en. > > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Django users" group. To post to this group, send email to django-users@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to django-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/django-users?hl=en.
