On Wed, Jun 3, 2009 at 5:12 PM, zignorp <zign...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I just fixed this and it's working swimmingly. It seems that 10.5 > doesn't come with that directory, so I just did what I said I would in > the last paragraph, and I have my first page. I'm very excited. Now > I have to decide whether to go through the pain of getting mysql > working right with django, or just trying my first project using sql > light. I am using mysql in a MAMP install already. Any thoughts on > this would be appreciated. > Thanks, > Wendy > > On Jun 3, 2:35 pm, zignorp <zign...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello, > > I've just installed the development version in leopard on the mac, and > > when I did this step: > > > > "On Unix-like systems, create a symbolic link to the file django-trunk/ > > django/bin/django-admin.py in a directory on your system path, such > > as /usr/local/bin. For example: > > > > ln -s `pwd`/django-trunk/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin > > > > This simply lets you type django-admin.py from within any directory, > > rather than having to qualify the command with the full path to the > > file." > > > > It looks like now local/bin is just a shortcut to django-admin.py, not > > a directory. > > > > So when I try to run django-admin.py startproject from elsewhere, it > > doesn't understand. > > > > Obviously I haven't been using my unix commands recently. I think I > > need to remove the alias file and create bin as a directory, then run > > that above command again, but I'm not sure if that's correct, or the > > best way to do that. Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Wendy > > > If you've already got MySQL running you can just use it, but with Django it's often easier to get started with SQLite because there's no permissions or database issues to deal with and it's very easy to switch to MySQL when you want to test and deploy an application.
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