You added the directory containing django-admin.py to your PATH right, not the path of django-admin.py itself?
If you want, type 'set path' (without quotes) into your command prompt and paste the result here and we'll see if you did it right. 2009/8/16 Thiago511 <tcgb...@hotmail.com>: > > UPDATE: > Well I added django-admin.py to my PATH and I still get an error > message: > > python: cannot open 'django-admin.py' : [Errno 2] No such file to > directory > > On Aug 15, 11:30 am, CLIFFORD ILKAY <clifford_il...@dinamis.com> > wrote: >> On 15/08/09 01:43 PM, Thiago511 wrote: >> >> > mark how do I add a file to %PATH% ? >> >> This isn't a Django issue so much as a (very basic) system >> administration issue. I suggest you read about the PATH environment >> variable and grasp that instead of blindly following someone else's >> instructions about how to do something as simple as adding something to >> the PATH. This isn't something that started with Vista. It dates back to >> the earliest days of DOS so there are plenty of resources on the web >> explaining this. Better yet, you should strive for understanding of >> environment variables in general. If you fixate on PATH alone and don't >> understand what an environment variable is, you'll have difficulties >> with PYTHONPATH as well. >> >> Once you understand these concepts, they're universally-applicable, with >> minor variations, to DOS/Windows, OS X, Linux, and a host of other >> operating systems. When you decide to deploy your completed Django >> project on the server of a hosting provider, in all likelihood, that >> server won't be running Windows anyway so it helps to develop this >> understanding. >> >> One of our Django hosting clients asked why he was getting import errors >> for Reportlab on our VPS when he wasn't on his local development >> environment. He suspected it was because Reportlab wasn't installed. He >> was right. We replied to him: >> >> "We've installed: >> >> python-reportlab - ReportLab library to create PDF documents using Python >> >> python-reportlab-accel - C coded extension accelerator for the ReportLab >> Toolkit >> >> For future reference, you don't necessarily have to wait for us to >> install Python libraries into the global Python site-packages. You could >> install the Python libraries somewhere in your home directory and put >> that directory in PYTHONPATH, as you did with Django itself." >> >> He replied: >> >> "Thanks for that. I should have realised I have access to the Python >> installation." >> >> In response, we replied: >> >> "You don't have access to the Python installation in /usr/lib/python. >> You have access to your home directory into which you can put Python >> libraries and add to PYTHONPATH. There is a big difference. The former >> is global. The latter can be different even on a per project basis so I >> hesitate to say it's local. If you build another Django project for >> another client, nothing stops you from having a different PYTHONPATH for >> that project. In fact, we do exactly that because we may have different >> versions of Django, or other Python libraries on which we depend, for >> each project." >> >> If you understood what I wrote above, you may be wondering, "How can you >> have a different PYTHONPATH for each application?" The excerpt below >> from the shell script that we use to start|stop|restart the fcgi(*) will >> illustrate. >> >> PROJDIR="/home/someuser/projects/someproject/" >> PYTHONPATH="/home/someuser/django/:/home/someuser/:/home/someuser/lib/" >> >> /usr/bin/python $PROJDIR/manage.py runfcgi umask=000 pidfile=$PIDFILE >> socket=$SOCKET method=$METHOD --pythonpath=$PYTHONPATH >> >> (Watch the line wrapping above. Everything from /usr/bin to PYTHONPATH >> below it is on one line.) >> >> (*) The above is for deployment via fcgi using the nginx web server. >> -- >> Regards, >> >> Clifford Ilkay >> Dinamis >> 1419-3266 Yonge St. >> Toronto, ON >> Canada M4N 3P6 >> >> <http://dinamis.com> >> +1 416-410-3326 > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
