Command not found: django-admin.py

Question

I am a complete beginner to Python/Django, but I want to dive right in and start experimenting. Thus I was following this guide on installing Python/Django http://devcenter.

Answer 1

The following guide in official site https://code.djangoproject.com/wiki/InstallationPitfalls

First, you should find location of django-admin.py by

which django-admin.py

Example: in my case

/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py

You use sudo ln -s to relocate django-admin-py to /usr/local/bin

sudo ln -s /Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/site-packages/django/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py

after that change permission of the django-admin to be executable sudo chmod +x /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py

Now you can use django-admin.py startproject mysite to create your django project

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If you want to change django-admin.py to django-admin to look like more compact you can use sudo mv /usr/local/bin/django-admin.py /usr/local/bin/django-admin

Hope this help for you !