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Saturday, 8 January 2011

Configure Django For Windows 7

Step 1:
First you need to download and install python. You can get a python installation from
http://www.python.org/download/
Step 2: now setup enviromental variables.
1. go to my computer and click your menu button
2.  now go to advanced system settings
3. look for the button enviromental variables
4. looked for system variables
5. chooes the variable called path
6. click edit

7. Now go to the end of the list
8. Enter C:/Pythonxx ; (put semi colon at the end)
9. To test this worked correctly. Go to the start menu
accessories --> cmd
type python if the system works
you will get a prompt like >>>

Step 3
1. download load the  Django-1.2.4.tar.gz.
2. now find a place you want to unzip the tar.gz file. To unzip you can ues a program called 7 zip.
3. when the file is unzipped  go to the director you unzipped in by going to cmd
4. type the command python setup.py install
5. This will unzip django for you
6 now to store your django project create a directory on your c:/ prompt
call it dev
mkdir creates a directory in msdosd

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