Thanks Jason. Putting python in front of 'django-admin' did work. I appreciate your help with this. I'm relatively new to Python and programming in general. All I've ever used is Windows and I don't know much about Linux-related operating systems. I'll probably go with Ubuntu because it seems everyone who knows what they're doing is using Linux(and Paul Graham mentions that just about all of Y Combinator's startups use either Mac OSX or Linux). But I'm just curious about the objective advantages of Ubuntu over Windows vis a vis django?Why would Windows cause headaches down the road? Also, is VMWare or Virtualbox necessary? How would it benefit my development environment?
thnx On Mar 7, 12:35 pm, Jason <goodri...@gmail.com> wrote: > Use python before all your commands. Even if you setup windows to > automatically work without this, it's still a really good habit to get > into. > > python django-admin.py > > My guess is that either will work or you have a problem with your > python environment. > > Eventually you'll stop using Windows for Django development (I was > like you once!). I suggest installing VirtualBox or VMWare (or > whatever else) and do all this stuff from Ubuntu. It will save you > many, many headaches. > > On Mar 6, 8:56 pm, Mika <schillerm...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Hi, > > I uninstalled and reinstalled django to see if that would solve > > things, but I still can't create a project. Here are the steps I'm > > taking: > > > 1) Made sure the correct path was set so that the command prompt can > > find the django-admin.py file. Here's the path I set to locate the > > appropriate folder: %SystemRoot%\system32;%SystemRoot%;%SystemRoot% > > \System32\Wbem;%SYSTEMROOT%\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\;C: > > \Python26\;C:\Python26\Scripts > > > 2) Went into the command prompt and typed in django-admin.py. It > > didn't automatically show me any of the available commands as I > > presume it should have, but it didn't generate any error message > > either. > > > 3) Typed in django-admin.py startproject mysite. I assumed I would > > then be able to go find the newly created mysite folder in my home > > directory because that's where it was set to start the project in the > > prompt > > > 4) Went into my user directory(C:\Users\Mika) to find mysite folder, > > but it wasn't there. I'm not getting any error messages at all either > > in the command prompt, so I'm not sure what's going on. Please advise. > > > thnx > > > Mika -- 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.
