how to create a Django project without using an IDE, but using the django-admin startproject command

[Ando Rakotomanana]

Hello, I'm still starting with django. And I have a problem with the creation of the project, I write: "django-admin startproject DjangoTest" in the cmd of my windows and it tells me that django-admin is not an internal command. While I typed the same code this morning in the cmd and it worked. And I do not understand why?

I have python 2.7.0 and 3.7.2 and django 1.6.2 installed on my windows 8.1

[Cathbert Mutaurwa]

Try check if django is setup properly in environment variables.

Maybe that will help

On Sat, 09 Mar 2019, 20:14 Ando Rakotomanana, <andorako...@gmail.com> wrote:

Hello, I'm still starting with django. And I have a problem with the creation of the project, I write: "django-admin startproject DjangoTest" in the cmd of my windows and it tells me that django-admin is not an internal command. While I typed the same code this morning in the cmd and it worked. And I do not understand why?

I have python 2.7.0 and 3.7.2 and django 1.6.2 installed on my windows 8.1

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[Rammanoj Potla]

Are you in the virtual environment ?? I guess you might be trying from outside the virtual environment

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[abel otugeme]

Make sure your virtual environments are set up well.  Also make sure your running that command from the folder where your manage.py file is...

On Mar 9, 2019 7:12 PM, "Ando Rakotomanana" <andorako...@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Hello, I'm still starting with django. And I have a problem with the creation of the project, I write: "django-admin startproject DjangoTest" in the cmd of my windows and it tells me that django-admin is not an internal command. While I typed the same code this morning in the cmd and it worked. And I do not understand why?
> I have python 2.7.0 and 3.7.2 and django 1.6.2 installed on my windows 8.1
>

[Ando Rakotomanana]

ok, i will try to reconfigure the virtual environment

[Sam Taiwo]

Make sure your virtual environment is activated, you have to activate it each time you create a new terminal.

Also contrary to what someone else said, you can use django-admin anywhere, while you must be in the correct directory to run the manage.py file

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[nm]

As others have pointed out, the problem might be not having your virtual env activated.

If it's your first time with Django, there are very clear installation and set-up instructions in the Django Girls tutorial - also for Windows. I highly recommend it for a start.

On a side note, I'd also recommend using Python 3.x and Django 2.1, if you can. Django 1.6 has not been supported for 4 years now, and Python 2.7 support is going to be dropped soon... and I suppose Django 1.6 may not be compatible with Python 3.7 ;)

[Carlos Eduardo]

Another tip is using templates to create your project. I'm developing one but the first version is already published. I added the template on GitHub with a good how-to.

https://github.com/tresloukadu/Django-Bootstrap-Project