10. Creating test project on virtualenv

Now, we want to install on the virtual environment.

(DjangoVirtualenv)k@HP-Notebook:~/Django/DjangoVirtualenv$ easy_install Django

Finally, Django has been installed. We can check inside the bin directory:

$ ls
activate      activate.fish     django-admin.py  easy_install-2.7  pip2    python   python2.7
activate.csh  activate_this.py  easy_install     pip               pip2.7  python2

The django-admin.py will be used to create our Django project.

Let's first look at what subcommands we can use with django-admin.py:

$ django-admin.py
Usage: django-admin.py subcommand [options] [args]
...
Available subcommands:

[django]
    check
    cleanup
    compilemessages
    createcachetable
    dbshell
    diffsettings
    dumpdata
    flush
    inspectdb
    loaddata
    makemessages
    runfcgi
    runserver
    shell
    sql
    sqlall
    sqlclear
    sqlcustom
    sqldropindexes
    sqlflush
    sqlindexes
    sqlinitialdata
    sqlsequencereset
    startapp
    startproject
    syncdb
    test
    testserver
    validate

We'll use the startproject subcommand to create our project:

$ django-admin.py startproject DjangoTestProject
$ ls
bin  DjangoTestProject  include  lib  local

We can see what are in the DjangoTestProject directory.

The manage.py will be used to run the server as shown in the next section.

Let's run the Django powered test web server.

$ cd DjangoTestProject
$ ~/Django/DjangoVirtualenv/DjangoTestProject$ python manage.py runserverValidating models...

0 errors found
...
Django version 1.6.2, using settings 'DjangoTestProject.settings'
Starting development server at http://127.0.0.1:8000/
Quit the server with CONTROL-C.

Now we want to switch back to real from virtual environment. We do it by deactivating it.

(DjangoVirtualenv)k@HP-Notebook:~/Django/DjangoVirtualenv/DjangoTestProject$ deactivate
k@HP-Notebook:~/Django/DjangoVirtualenv/DjangoTestProject$

Now we're no longer under virtualenv. Note that we do not have virtual environment name, (DjangoVirtualenv), in the last prompt.