Creating project + basic file structure in Django

By Guru - May 11, 2021

Creating Project

I Assume that you have installed django on your computer, if not install django from here.

Now create a Django project, open terminal/command prompt, go to desired directory and type in following command

django-admin startproject myproject

Explanation :

Explanation :

myproject : It's your base directory.
myproject : It is root directory. It is inside your base direcory.
__init__.py : An empty file that tells Python that this directory should be considered a Python package.
asgi.py : An entry-point for ASGI-compatible web servers to serve your project.
setting.py : This file contains all the information or data about your project.
urls.py : This file contains all url patterns of your project and applications.
wsgi.py : wsgi (web server gateway interface) is specified that how your web server communicate with web server.
manage.py : A command line utility that let you interact with your application.
db.sqlite3 : It's a database file.
venv : It's a virtualenv directory.

Now start your server. Django provide you a local development server where you can run your application.

Type in following to command to server

Note : make sure that you should be in your base directory where manage.py file is present.

python manage.py runserver

You will get following message in your terminal/linux.

Note : For now ignore the waning alert in red.

Your server is succesfully started at http://127.0.0.1:8000 or http://localhost:8000.

By default Django use port 8000

You can change is by this command.

python manage.py runerver 8080

Now go to your browser and you at above url you'll get.