Django Learn Series | Creating a Django project
- source djangoTestEnv/bin/activate
- Create a folder like DjangoPractice on Desktop
- cd Desktop/DjangoPractice
- 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
- cd firstdjango
- python manage.py
- To check list of available command
- python manage.py runserver
- To start the webserver
