Django-Ubuntu-18.04-PART2.md

First Project

small blog

django-admin startproject mysite . Don't forget to add the period (or dot) . at the end!

1. settings.py

1. change your timezone and languages in settings.py time zones languages

2. We'll also need to add a path for static files.

add this line STATIC_ROOT = os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'static') below STATIC_URL = '/static/'

3. ALLOWED_HOSTS = ['127.0.0.1', '.pythonanywhere.com'] change ALLOWED_HOSTS = [] NB:we are goig to deploy it at pythonanywhere

4. Data base setup using default sqlite3 which is already deifined

DATABASES = { 'default': { 'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3', 'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'), } }

To create a database for our blog, let's run the following in the console: python manage.py migrate

Run the server

python manage.py runserver

create app for blog from the directory that contains manage.py

python manage.py startapp blog

2.settings.py

After creating an application, we also need to tell Django that it should use it. We do that in the file mysite/settings.py open it in your code editor. We need to find INSTALLED_APPS and add a line containing 'blog', just above ]. So the final product should look like this:

INSTALLED_APPS = [ 'django.contrib.admin', 'django.contrib.auth', 'django.contrib.contenttypes', 'django.contrib.sessions', 'django.contrib.messages', 'django.contrib.staticfiles', 'blog', ]