virtualenv won't activate on windows

Question

Essentially I cannot seem to activate my virtualenv environment which I create.

I\'m doing this inside of windows powershell through using

scripts\\a         


        

Answer 1

Follow these steps to the latter. step 1. Use Windows PowerShell as ADMINISTRATOR. (VERY IMPORTANT) and cd into the project folder. Run

virtual env

step 2. Check in the scripts folder if you have your activate.bat file

\env\Scripts\activate.bat #It has to be there.

step 3. If it is not here make sure you have an internet connection and run this again

virtual env 

step 4. If the activate.bat file is there in the script folder proceed. step 5. run this on your shell

Set-ExecutionPolicy Unrestricted -Force

step 6. To activate virtualenv on Windows, activate script is in the Scripts folder :

env\Scripts\activate.bat

step 7 check for the (env) at the start of each line this shows you are on the virtual environment

step 8. To reactivate when yo come back to the project the second time run:

.\\env\Scripts\activate