Nothing happens when I do: python manage.py command

Question

I\'m new to django and currently going through the main tutorial. Even though it was working earlier, when I do python manage.py runserver OR python manage.py -h OR with any

Answer 1

if you are using Redis Server on Windows, check it out if Redis Server is running, I had same problem and realized my Redis Server was not running, I ran it and now my manage.py commands work fine.

Answer 2

Just stuck with the same problem. Found a solution that works, but tedious.

You need to know the location of the python.exe file in your computer. It is usually C:/Users/USERNAME/AppData/Local/Programs/Python//python.exe

Modify as required and run the following in CMD,

C:/Users/USER1/AppData/Local/Programs/Python/Python38-32/python.exe
F:/mysite/manage.py runserver

Hope this works :)

Answer 3

The same happened with me also, but this issue is a minor one as it happens if you have multiple versions of Python on your system, you can select a specific Python version by running python3 or whichever version you want. SO you should start from the beginning, uninstall Django first then, create a virtual environment, decide upon a directory where you want to place it, and run the venv module as a script with the directory path:

for e.g: python3 -m venv tutorial-env

//This will create the tutorial-env directory if it doesn’t exist, and also create directories inside it Once you’ve created a virtual environment, you may activate it.

On Windows, run:

tutorial-env\Scripts\activate.bat On Unix or MacOS, run:

source tutorial-env/bin/activate

Now, In the command prompt, ensure your virtual environment is active, and execute the following command:

...> py -m pip install Django

NOTE: If django-admin only displays the help text no matter what arguments it is given, there is probably a problem with the file association in Windows. Check if there is more than one environment variable set for running Python scripts in PATH. This usually occurs when there is more than one Python version installed.

Answer 4

First, check if python is fully installed by typing "python" in a shell.

Then you should try python manage.py runserver inside your django project. If you don't have any django project, try creating one by typing django-admin.py startproject mysite. If nothing is displayed in your shell, you must have installed Django the wrong way.

Please refer to Django Documentation at https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/1.4/intro/install/

Answer 5

Another solution, if you can, is to upgrade Django

pip install django --upgrade

Oftentimes one will get other unrelated issues to solve that are linked with the upgrade but once all all fixed the server should run just fine.

If you can't upgrade Django, this problem also happens when the code was built using Python 2.x and you're locally using Python 3.x.

The quicker fix in that case is to uninstall Python 3.x from your machine and make sure Python 2.x was added to the path. I've seen some developers setting up alias in PowerShell to have more than one version in the environment too.