Django Learn Series | Creating a Django project

1. source djangoTestEnv/bin/activate
2. Create a folder like DjangoPractice on Desktop
3. cd Desktop/DjangoPractice
4. django-admin startproject firstdjango
• Auto creates  a folder named firstdjango and required files in it
• Subfolder named firstdjango inside firstdjango will have 
• init.py
• settings.py
• Configures Django
• urls.py
• Routes requests based on URL
• wsgi.py
• provides a hook for webservers
• WSGI is the Web Server Gateway Interface. It is a specification that describes how a web server communicates with web applications, and how web applications can be chained together to process one request.
• WSGI is a Python standard described in detail in PEP 3333.
• main folder firstdjango will have manage.py
• manage.py runs commands related to firstdjango
5. cd firstdjango
6. python manage.py
• To check list of available command
7. python manage.py runserver
• To start the webserver

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