Django Workshop at PyConPH 2015

Exercise 2.1 - Setting Up the Development Environment

1. Create the project directory using the terminal and CD into it

$ mkdir website.com && cd website.com

2. Create the virtual environment

# On OSX or Linux
website.com $ virtualenv venv --no-site-packages

# On Windows, do this if package installations below don’t work
website.com $ virtualenv venv --system-site-packages

3. Activate the virtual environment

# On OSX or Linux
website.com $ source venv/bin/activate
(venv)website.com $

# On Windows
website.com $ venv\Scripts\activate.bat
(venv)website.com $

4. Install django

(venv)website.com $ pip install django

5. Save site packages

(venv)website.com $ pip freeze > requirements.txt

Challenge: Feeling Advanced? You look advanced. You can do this!

Why don’t you try VirtualEnvWrapper? They say it makes working with virtual environments more pleasant.