djangogirls/django-girls.md

django girls blog

Target: create a blog using django.

01 Your first Django project!

1.1 Create Django project

• Command to start Django project:

$ django-admin startproject mysite.

Generating following dir structure:

djangogirls
├── manage.py
├── mysite
│   ├── __init__.py
│   ├── settings.py
│   ├── urls.py
│   └── wsgi.py
├── myvenv
│   └── ...
└── requirements.txt

where:

• setting.pyL: helps with management of the site.
  • contains configuration of the website
• urls.py: contains a list of patterns used by urlresolve

1.2 Change settings of django website

Edit mysite/settings.py:

1. Change timezone: `TIME_ZONE=Australia/Canberra'
2. Change language: `LANGUAGE_CODE = 'en-us'
3. Add a path for static files (e.g. CSS and static files): STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static')
4. Add allowed host site: ALLOWED_HOST = ['127.0.0.1', '.amazonaws.com'] for using cloud9

1.3 Set up a database

Django support multiple databases, to store data. sqlite3 is the default one, which is already set up as shown in mysite/settings.py:

DATABASES = {
    'default': {
        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
        'NAME': BASE_DIR / 'db.sqlite3',
    }
}

After confirming database settings, migrate the project python manage.py migrate

1.4 Starting the web server

python manage.py runserver

2. Django models